Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
West wall to churchyard of Church of St Illtyd with stile, gatepiers and postbox
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 18 November 1980
- Locality
- Mamhilad
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72511, -3.00746
- Cadw reference
- 2613
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
The churchyard wall along the east side of Old Abergavenny Road.
History
Probably C19 wall and gatepiers, but using the gravestone of Aaron Morris (d.1680) set up on its side as the stile. The wall incorporates a Victorian wall letter-box which may well be contemporary with its construction.
Exterior
The wall is built of random rubble stone, with squared dressed stone to the gatepiers, but incorporating the gravestone of Aaron Morris (d.1680). The wall and piers have a flat stone coping and the square piers are topped by roughly rounded boulders. C20 double wrought iron gates. The wall is about 30m in length and includes an iron VR letterbox built in at the far end away from the gate. The inscription on the grave slab is towards the road - HERE LIETH THE BODY OF ARON MORIS DECEASED THE 25 MAY 1680 - with the Prince of Wales feathers inscribed below.
Reason for designation
Included for its strong group value with the Church of St. Illtyd and the Churchyard Cross, and because it includes an important C17 gravestone and a Victorian wall letter-box.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Cross at Church of St IlltydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St IlltydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tea Caddy Tomb with railings in Churchyard of Church of St. IlltydCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 62Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.