Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument to Eleanor Isabella Franklin at east end of Church of St. Andrew
Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 18 November 1980
- Locality
- Tredunnock
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Llangybi
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64909, -2.89751
- Cadw reference
- 2690
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
In a group of Victorian monuments at the east end of the church.
History
Probably erected soon after the recorded death in 1860.
Exterior
Red sandstone ashlar with iron railings. Monument in the form of a medieval altar. Rectangular Gothic tomb with 6 x 2 cusped arch arcade supporting a moulded slab top carrying a recumbent cross. This tomb is set on a stone base with a small railed surround. The arcade contains several inscriptions, one is inscribed: 'Eleanor Isabella... only child (of) Sir John Franklin, first discoverer of the North West Passage... from a deadly malady from which she had rescued a suffering child, died... 1860.'
Reason for designation
Included for historical interest and as a fine Victorian Gothic table tomb having strong group value with the nearby Church of St. Andrew.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St. AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard of Church of St. AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gate and Fence to the Churchyard of the Church of St. AndrewCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- War Memorial Lychgate at Church of St. AndrewCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.