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
21627
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1999
Date of Amendment
31/03/1999
Name of Property
Wall, railings and gates at New Bethel Chapel graveyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Pontllanfraith
Town
Locality
Mynyddislwyn
Easting
319217
Northing
195377
Street Side
Location
Wall completely surrounds the original graveyard and extends uphill along the lane fronting the graveyard extension, ending in a recess with double gates.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Wall defining the early graveyard and surrounding the mid C18 chapel is probably contemporary with it, as is possibly the gate, though not the piers. As well as the monuments listed separately the graveyard contains many finely lettered headstones. It was extended later uphill and probably the front railings and wall date from this period. The gated recess higher up appears to be later still. G. Harry quotes dates of 1872 and 1899 for cemetery extension. Certainly it had already expanded by the time of first edition OS map 1886.
Exterior
Original graveyard wall surrounds the chapel; construction is of narrow coursed stone rubble with tightly packed upright coping stones; it appears as a high retaining wall from outside in the surrounding fields. Later the graveyard was extended uphill and part of the front wall is included in this listing. Wall in front of chapel, a later rebuild of the original, is of larger rubble with saddleback coping, with railings on top; these are close set with spear finials and scrolled supports to the stanchions. Lightweight railings extend at right angles to side wall which divides off the later extension. In front of the James Thomas monument enclosure the rails are higher. The uphill extension of the wall is of mixed rubble with upright stone coping. The heavy wide wrought iron entrance gate on the downhill side is possibly contemporary with the first chapel and has scrolled and twisted spear finials to top and middle rail and scrolled stiles; rockfaced gatepiers with pyramidal caps. The uphill recess has 4 piers of coursed rockfaced stone with rockfaced caps; two at roadside with a curved section of wall extending to the two recessed gatepiers from which hang fine decorative iron double gates incorporating motifs of a wheel, a vinescroll with a row of finials on the upper rail.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for historic interest reflecting the development of the chapel and for some fine ironwork; group value with Chapel, Tombs and Sunday School.
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