Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cemetery Lodge
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2002
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63265, -2.68030
- Cadw reference
- 27111
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
At the entrance to the cemetery fronting the drive.
History
Built 1855.
Exterior
Tall lodge in Gothic Revival style. Built of coursed roughly dressed stone with ashlar dressings, pebble-dashed to side; steep-pitched plain tile roof with dentil eaves, gable copings with moulded kneelers and apex stones; gabled dormer with small paired shouldered lights. Single storey and attic. Main frontage has grouped lancets under relieving arches within an ashlar surround, 3 to left, 2 to right, replaced glazing; central porch with steeply gabled tiled roof supported by corbels and chamfered shouldered doorway, replaced door; battered plinth. Gable end has hipped stone-roofed shallow bay with 3 shouldered lights. Extended to rear.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the cemetery chapel complex and for group value with it.
Nearby in the register
- Cemetery ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The GwentlandsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and Gates of St TewdricDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gateway at GwentlandsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.