Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
20435
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Group of nine memorials on the W side of the path to the S porch, Church of St Cynwyd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Llangynwyd Middle
Town
Llangynwyd Middle
Locality
Llangynwyd
Easting
285717
Northing
188801
Street Side
Location
The group comprises 5 chest tombs, 3 ledger slabs and 1 headstone, set immediately S of the Hopkin and Jenkins railed group, approximately 23m S of the S porch door.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Group of churchyard monuments of the early to mid C19.
Exterior
The tombs are arranged in rows, end to end, and, described from the W, comprise:- North Row: (a) Chest tomb with wide corner baluters and deep capstone with rounded edges, to Griffith Thomas of Cwmdu-isaf, Bettws, d.1835, and wife. (b) Narrow chest tomb with fielded end pilasters, rounded-edged capstone inscribed on top to Margaret Jenkins, d.1800, others added, and inscribed on side to Morgan Jenkins of Pentref-isaf, Margam, d.1860; (c) Laid headstone to Margaret Davies of Maesteg, d.1837. Second Row: (d) Chest tomb with wide corner balusters, deep capstone with rounded edges, to Jenkin Williams of Bettws, d.1811, Thomas Jones of Gellilenor Farm, d.1876, added to the side. (e) Chest with corner balusters and chamfered base, hipped top, to Margaret Rees of Dyffryn Llynvi Fan, d.1897, Gwilym Thomas Rees added to top, d.1893 on military service. Third Row: (f) Low chest tomb of ashlar, deep ledger slab with rounded edges, inscribed to Margaret William of Ceven-y-fan, Glyncorrwg, d.1817; (g) Headstone with a shaped half-rounded top carved with a simple cone and leaves, to William Thomas, child, d.1837, with two later children. E of last, two ledger slabs side by side, (h) Anne William, d.1812, and (i) Gwenllian Lewis, d.181(?) and son, died 1838.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a fine group of monuments in this richly furnished graveyard, and representative of churchyard tombs of the early-mid C19.
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