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Pair of Gate Piers to the Former Margam House
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 25 April 2000
- Locality
- Margam Park
- Town
- Port Talbot
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56046, -3.73153
- Cadw reference
- 23271
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
Located on a large grassed area on the R side of the driveway leading into Margam Park. The cricket pitch and pavilion are further to the R.
History
There were 3 sets of gate piers on the avenue leading to the main entrance of the former Margam House. They are shown in two C17 paintings and are probably one of 2 sets at each end of a square enclosure containing 4 fishponds. Constructed of Sutton limestone from the former abbey. They are not in their original position, and may have been moved during C R M Talbot's reconstruction of the gardens in 1830-40.
Exterior
Two square gate piers of limestone ashlar. Flat cap stones with mouldings to undersides, surmounted by large ball finials on moulded pedestals. Ornamental scroll to exterior side of each pier supported on a corbel. Jambs to interior sides.
Reason for designation
Listed as early gate piers with well preserved architectural detail. In a prominent position.
Nearby in the register
- Terrace with Pools and Flower Beds Fronting Margam OrangeryGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Margam CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ornamental PoolGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Turbine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.