Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Garden at Moynes Court
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61513, -2.69450
- Cadw reference
- 24099
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
About 10m southeast of Moynes Court approached up a lane off the road through Mathern immediately to the south of the M48.
History
A rectangular garden, originally probably a formal parterre, which probably dates from soon after the building of Moynes Court in 1610-12. Probably built by Bishop Godwin of Llandaff when he moved to Moynes Court from his nearby residence of Mathern Palace. It now belongs to the smaller section of Moynes Court (No 2).
Exterior
Garden walls in a square to the southeast of Moynes Court and now a part of No 2. Rubble stone walls about 2m in height with a half round coping.
Interior
The internal face of the walls is as the outside. The garden contains a possibly C18 stone sundial.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Moynes Court and as a part of the historic ensemble.
Nearby in the register
- Moynes Court, Nos 1 and 2Domesticunder 1 mi
- Gatehouse at Moynes CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Moynes CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Tithe BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.