Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gates and Railings at Christ Church
Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1999
- Locality
- Ebbw Vale
- Community
- Ebbw Vale
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77217, -3.20686
- Cadw reference
- 22525
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
Church is prominently sited on E side of Church Street, the spire dominating the town. Gates and railings in front of church, along Church Street.
History
Later C19. The church was built 1860-61 by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company, to the designs of John Norton of London, architect, to serve the growing ironworks town. The upper part of the tower, along with the spire were completed in 1891, to the original plans by Kempson and Fowler in 1891. The gates and railings probably date from the latter period, apparently replacing a wooden fence. Gates and railings (not stamped) probably made at the Ebbw Vale Works.
Exterior
Railings extend from C20 lychgate immediately NW of church to gates at SW corner of churchyard. Tall and heavily detailed railings set on single course of rock-faced limestone blocks. Railings extend N-S in twelve bays, divided by thick square-section posts, which have leafy capitals and tall moulded finial rising from acanthus-leaf bases. Rails are cruciform in section set on elevated sill-rail. Top rail with subsidiary horizontal rail below: alternating fleur-de-lis and taller three-lobe foliage finials. At S end is pair of rock-faced limestone piers with plinths and chamfered angles; heavy limestone copings with cardinal gablets having blind trefoils. Paired iron gates matching railings.
Reason for designation
Well-detailed later C19 churchyard railings. Group value with Christ Church.
Nearby in the register
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Penuel Scout Hall (formerly Penuel CM Chapel)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ebbw Vale Adult Education CentreEducationunder 1 mi
- British Steel Tinplate Works General OfficeIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.