Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gates, Boundary Wall and Railings at Whitefield Chapel.
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 October 1998
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82525, -3.02105
- Cadw reference
- 20756
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Fronting the pavement outside the Whitefield Chapel on the east side of Pen-y-pound, some 30m north from the junction with Park Road.
History
All part of original design of Presbyterian Chapel of 1907-10 by local architect E A Johnson.
Exterior
Coursed rock-faced grey rubble sandstone with Bath stone ashlar dressings. Stylish Arts and Crafts entrance gates and railings. Entrances at each end are flanked by tall gatepiers; chamfered ashlar off-sets to base; piers have elegant tall capping stones with inclined ashlar faces and curved, moulded tops. Between the entrance gates, the boundary wall bows out towards the roadway. Low wall with chamfered ashlar coping and ornamental cast-iron railings. The stanchions have panels of tall vertical bars and heart-shaped art nouveau heads with curved tops, echoing the shape of the capping stones of the gate-piers. Gates in similar style to railings.
Reason for designation
Included for their special interest as elegant Arts and Crafts entrance gates and railings which form part of E A Johnson's original chapel design of 1907-10.
Nearby in the register
- Alandale, including attached wall and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitefield Chapel (Presbyterian)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gates and Railings of No. 4No class recordedunder 1 mi
- 4 Pen-y-poundDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.