Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls, gates, piers and railings to The Vicarage
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 November 2003
- Locality
- Church Street
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85795, -4.30171
- Cadw reference
- 82213
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
Situated on curve of street opposite SE entrance to St Peter's Church.
History
Entrance gates and walls to St Peter's vicarage, 1855-6 by R.K. Penson.
Exterior
Entrance gates with piers and flanking walls and railings. Double main gates and pedestrian gates to left. Three Gothic style Bath stone piers, each square at base, broached to octagonal at height of top gate hinge and capped by ashlar octagonal pointed cap. Raised gate-stop on inner side of outer pier, and to both sides of intermediate pier. Short length of rubble wall each side, that to right curved with ashlar coping and low iron Gothic rail, that to left is higher, with plain copings, and may have been rebuilt.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid C19 set of gatepiers and gates, of good Gothic character, and of group value with the vicarage.
Nearby in the register
- The VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Priory StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Red Lion PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- 144 Priory StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.