Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Revetment Wall of Churchyard at Church of St Mary and adjoining Paved Road of Chapel Hill
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chapel Hill, Tintern, Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, designated on 29 September 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 September 2000
- Locality
- Chapel Hill
- Town
- Tintern
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69676, -2.68090
- Cadw reference
- 24057
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The retaining wall of the Churchyard and the footpath leading from Chapel Lane to the Church of St Mary.
History
The enclosure wall to the churchyard is likely to date from the remaking of the roadway. This roadway could be as early as the late C18 but the lack of wear suggests a later date and it is probably early C19. This was the road up to Penterry and St Arvans and was one of the main accesses from Chepstow before the valley turnpike was opened in 1829.
Exterior
Rubble retaining wall to churchyard about 3m in height which decreases as the road reaches the churchyard gate. Adjoining roadway paved with limestone setts running uphill from Chapel Lane to the Church of St Mary on Chapel Hill. It is about 3m in width and approximately 300m in length. The top 100m runs parallel with the churchyard and the paving seems to peter out almost immediately after passing the church.
Reason for designation
Included as a churchyard wall retaining its character flanked by a particularly good (probably) early C19 paved road which survives in unaltered condition.
Nearby in the register
- Former Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Mary's Church, Chapel HillChurchunder 1 mi
- Tomb with Sarcophagus in Churchyard of Former Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of J S Brown in Churchyard of Former Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.