Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railings
Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 16 June 2003
- Locality
- Vaynor
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Community
- Vaynor
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78326, -3.37970
- Cadw reference
- 81188
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 the churchyard of the Church of St Gwynno, Vaynor, just E of the church.
History
Graveslab of the ironmaster Robert Thompson Crawshay, died 1879. The Crawshay family ironworks at Cyfartha were the largest in the world by 1803, and Cyfartha Castle was built for William Crawshay II in 1824-5. R.T. Crawshay succeeded to the business, and ran it autocratically, supposedly the reason for the stark inscription.
Exterior
Graveslab a single pink conglomerate stone slab of some 1.8m by 3m said to weigh some 30 tons. In raised bronze letters is written:
ROBERT THOMPSON CRAWSHAY
DIED MAY 10TH 1879
AGED 62 YEARS
GOD FORGIVE ME
Surrounding pink conglomerate stone coping carrying fine cast-iron railings with top and bottom horizontal rail, square section uprights with spearheads and cast-iron columns at corners with urns on short round pedestals.
Reason for designation
Included as a monument of unusual scale and uniquely inscribed to a major figure of Welsh industrial history.
Nearby in the register
- Tower of Old Church of St GwynnoReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cae Burdydd CastleMotteunder 1 mi
- Hy BrasailDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fingerpost near Church of St GwynnoTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.