Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tympanum in garden wall at Home Farm
Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, designated on 3 September 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 3 September 2004
- Locality
- Abbey Cwmhir
- Community
- Abbey Cwmhir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33022, -3.38846
- Cadw reference
- 83106
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the wall on the NW side of the house, facing the front garden.
History
Abbey Cwmhir Estate was purchased by Thomas Wilson in 1822. In 1824-5 he excavated the ruins of Cwmhir Abbey and salvaged numerous architectural fragments. The most important was the C13 tympanum, which was set into the garden wall at Home Farm, in which Wilson probably lived when he visited his estate.
Exterior
A freestone tympanum designed to be placed within a cusped pointed arch, depicting the Ascension in high relief. It is set into a coped rubble-stone garden wall approximately 20m long, retaining the farm yard on higher ground on the N side, and with modern steel railings.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as the most significant of the medieval sculpture salvaged from Cwmhir Abbey, and for its contribution to the setting and historic character of Home Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Home FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- SW farm range at Home FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- NE farm range at Home FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- NW farm range at Home FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.