Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New Cemetery, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8185 / 51°49'6"N

Longitude: -3.0314 / 3°1'53"W

OS Eastings: 329003

OS Northings: 213821

OS Grid: SO290138

Mapcode National: GBR F5.WLP2

Mapcode Global: VH796.DKS9

Plus Code: 9C3RRX99+9C

Entry Name: Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New Cemetery

Listing Date: 15 March 1996

Last Amended: 15 March 1996

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 17245

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300017245

Location: At the main drive entrance to the New Cemetery from the narrow lane immediately to south of Usk Bridge.

County: Monmouthshire

Community: Llanfoist Fawr (Llan-ffwyst Fawr)

Community: Llanfoist Fawr

Locality: Abergavenny

Built-Up Area: Llanfoist

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

The eastern end of New Cemetery was opened in 1894 and is landscaped in the style of a Victorian public park or garden. These gate-piers are presumed to be contemporary with the chapel and probably also designed by E A Johnson, architect of Abergavenny.

Exterior

Tall pair of Gothic gate-piers of bull-nosed rubble with enormous freestone caps in the manner of tabernacles. These are gabled and panelled with lancets and trefoils and are themselves surmounted by domical octagonal caps with foliated finials (missing to right). The wrought-iron gates are similarly Gothic with dog-bars and lock-bars. The entrance is flanked by curved rubble walls that turn outwards to join the boundary wall at the roadside.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with the New Cemetery Chapel and Lychgate.

Abergavenny New Cemetery is included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in Wales No PGW (Gt) 37.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II New Cemetery Chapel
Prominently sited at the top of the cemetery which is reached from a narrow lane immediately to south of Usk Bridge.
II Lychgate to New Cemetery
Pedestrian entrance to east of the main drive entrance; set into the stepped rubble boundary wall along the narrow lane immediately to south of Usk Bridge.
II* Usk Bridge (also known as Abergavenny Bridge)
Spanning the River Usk and the boundary between Abergavenny and Llanfoist Fawr communities.
II* Usk Bridge (aka Abergavenny Bridge) (Also in the community of Llanfoist Fawr)
Spanning the River Usk and the boundary between Abergavenny and Llanfoist Fawr communities.
II Telephone Call-box
Situated at the end of a lay-by to the north of Coopers Factory at the boundary of the Abergavenny Conservation Area.
II Waterloo House
Reached from Back Lane on the north side of Llanfoist village. Set in the slope with cobbled forecourt.
II The Old Workhouse Studio
On the south-west side of town about 80m west of the old railway cuttting.
II The Westgate
At the junction with Merthyr Road and Union Road East at the top of the hill going down to Usk Bridge.

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Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfoist, Monmouthshire