Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatepiers to St Nicholas's Churchyard
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Grosmont, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, designated on 19 October 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- Grosmont
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91431, -2.86669
- Cadw reference
- 24127
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)
- 1898 · 215 Ross (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 215 Ross (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the boundary of a gently sloping churchyard, some 120m N of the transept of the Church of St Nicholas.
History
Pair of stone gatepiers, probably early C19. At the time of the restoration of 1888, the ball finials were removed on the instructions of the Rector of Grosmont, Charles Wesley, but the Monmouth Beacon records that "Mr Rolls asked for them to be put back since some old residents might miss them."
Exterior
Square gatepiers, some 2m high. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Each gatepier has a moulded cap and is surmounted by a ball finial supported on a pyramid base. E gatepier carries inscribed tablets which record the donation of the iron church gates in memory of Andrew William Waring Pope (d.1959) and his wife Nira Pope (d.1981). C20 ornamental wrought iron gates.
Reason for designation
Included for their important group value with the Church of St Nicholas and the nearby churchyard cross.
Nearby in the register
- Coach House at The Post OfficeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Post OfficeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cross in St Nicholas's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Grosmont Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.