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
21178
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/12/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Tomb to Henry Vaughan to E of Church of St Ffraed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talybont-on-Usk
Town
Locality
Llansantffraed
Easting
312260
Northing
223510
Street Side
NE
Location
Towards the E edge of Llansantffraed churchyard; stands in a later flagged area part enclosed by railings.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Henry Vaughan was one ot the school of C17 metaphysical poets, also a member of the important Vaughan family of Tretower. His family lived at nearby Newton, where he is believed to have been born; his brother served as rector of Llansantffraed church, and his sister lived at Trebinshwn on the other side of the mountain near Llangorse Lake. Inscription may have been recut.
Exterior
Large flat tomb slab built up from ground inscribed Henricus Vaughan Siluris MD OBIT 1695 with Latin epitaph and large engraved crest of 3 bonnetted faces with a chevron, grooved edge to inscription. Separate stone at foot engraved HVE 1689.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its importance as the gravestone of a nationally important literary figure.
Group value with the Church of St Ffraed, the Gwynne Holford monument and Llansantffraed House.
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