Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trinity Almshouses
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 November 1974
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82268, -3.02217
- Cadw reference
- 2384
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
Next to the Church of the HolyTrinity in a close-knit group.
History
Built in 1842 and designed by T H Wyatt. They were endowed in 1840 by Rachael Herbert for the benefit of single and widowed women. The almshouse appear to have been little altered since.
Exterior
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as early Victorian almshouses of definite character designed by T H Wyatt which, together with the Vicarage and the Church, forms a coherently designed group.
Nearby in the register
- Trinity AlmshousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Holy Trinity VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trinity AlmshousesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Trinity AlmshousesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.