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
20756
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/1998
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
Entrance Gates, Boundary Wall and Railings at Whitefield Chapel.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
329727
Northing
214563
Street Side
E
Location
Fronting the pavement outside the Whitefield Chapel on the east side of Pen-y-pound, some 30m north from the junction with Park Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
All part of original design of Presbyterian Chapel of 1907-10 by local architect E A Johnson.
Exterior
Coursed rock-faced grey rubble sandstone with Bath stone ashlar dressings. Stylish Arts and Crafts entrance gates and railings. Entrances at each end are flanked by tall gatepiers; chamfered ashlar off-sets to base; piers have elegant tall capping stones with inclined ashlar faces and curved, moulded tops. Between the entrance gates, the boundary wall bows out towards the roadway. Low wall with chamfered ashlar coping and ornamental cast-iron railings. The stanchions have panels of tall vertical bars and heart-shaped art nouveau heads with curved tops, echoing the shape of the capping stones of the gate-piers. Gates in similar style to railings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for their special interest as elegant Arts and Crafts entrance gates and railings which form part of E A Johnson's original chapel design of 1907-10.
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