Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mounting block at entry to Bettws Newydd churchyard
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 March 2000
- Locality
- Bettws Newydd
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74806, -2.92574
- Cadw reference
- 23005
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
Situated at NW entry to Bettws Newydd churchyard, between main and pedestrian gates.
History
Mounting block, probably C19.
Exterior
Mounting block, rubble stone, two steps and slab top.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent survival of a C19 mounting block; group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Bettws Newydd ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross in Bettws Newydd ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bettws Newydd Churchyard Cross-BaseCrossunder 1 mi
- Former Coach House at Bettws LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.