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
25181
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/05/2001
Date of Amendment
15/05/2001
Name of Property
Boundary Wall and Railings at St David's Churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Rhymney
Town
Rhymney
Locality
Rhymney
Easting
311213
Northing
208033
Street Side
W
Location
Wall completely surrounds the large rectangular churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Church built 1839-43 with extensive churchyard probably enclosed at the same time. Illustration c1870 shows wall though railings are not clear. There has been some late C20 remodelling of the entrances to form recessed bays and of the top of the cast iron railings. Some small sections of railing are replacements.
Exterior
At N, W and E the churchyard boundary consists of a low rubble wall with heavy roughly dressed coping stones surmounted by cast iron railings, each section with 18 uprights attached to rectangular stanchions with pyramidal caps, some supported by struts. The triangular hole near top shows the top rail originally passed through the stanchion, but a later adaptation means the top rail now clasps the stanchion. Three entrance bays at NW, SE and E (the first two recessed) have been remodelled; tall gate piers with capstones and C20 metalwork. At S end of W side and along the S side the wall is high with no railings, capped with cement; at SE corner is a tall pier with capstone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding some remodelling as an extensive boundary wall contemporary with the church of c 1840, for group value with it.
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