Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Group of three Chest Tombs to the south of the Church of St Oudoceus
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2001
- Locality
- Llandogo
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73328, -2.68665
- Cadw reference
- 24952
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 to the south of the Church of St Oudoceus.
History
Group of three chest tombs dating from the late C18 and early C19. The dates of death recorded are 1792 and 1807 with the third being apparently of c1800.
Exterior
Three sandstone chest tombs with scrolled corner balusters and slab tops with cyma recta mouldings. They are inscribed severally :-
Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Williams, died 1792.
Thomas Williams, died c1800.
Anne, the wife of George Brown, died 1807.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly good and well preserved group of C18 chest tombs having strong group value with the Church of St Oudoceus, the other churchyard monuments and the churchyard wall.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St OudoceusReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Group of four Chest Tombs in Churchyard to the south west of Church of St OudoceusReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wall of Churchyard of Church of St OudoceusReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Priory LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.