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
23801
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
27/07/2000  
Date of Amendment
27/07/2000  
Name of Property
Railed Memorial to Protheroe family near W Gate of old Churchyard at Llanelly Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Llanelly  
Town
 
Locality
Llanelly  
Easting
323217  
Northing
214817  
Street Side
 
Location
Memorial is situated near W gate to churchyard, on right-hand side of lawned path.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Erected c. 1863. Unusual memorial consisting of chest tomb wth iron legs, probably cast at the local Clydach Ironworks, which closed in 1877. Other memorials in the churchyard have fluted ironlegs supporting a facetted slab, but the Prothero mmeorial is more elaborate in being a chest-tomb, and having railings.  

Exterior
Chest tomb with large sandstone slab, the deep overhang supported by six cast-iron colonettes with square abaci. Lettered slab is facetted to central ridge. Inscription to W side of chest to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann Prothero d. 30th October 1854 aged 1 year and 6 months, and James, d. March 22nd 1863, aged 9 months. E side of chest has inscription to Alice Protheroe d. 18th September 1878 aged 16 months. Slab has inscription to Thomas Protheroe d. September 18th 1882, his wife Mary Ann d. 1883, Magdalen, wife of Llewellyn Brown d. November 30th 1902 and their daughter Rosamond Ann d. April 13th 1885. Railings have spear-finials and central stanchions with spike-finials ; ball-finials to corners all missing except one.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually well-designed late C19 memorial, utilising locally-produced cast-iron; a detail rarely encountered elsewhere in the area. Group value with Church and Cross.  

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