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.
Date of Designation
30/01/2004
Date of Amendment
30/01/2004
Name of Property
Gate and railings and churchyard wall to SE of Church of St Cadoc
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Location
Churchyard wall to SE and railings to E and NE of Church of Saint Cadoc.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Churchyard wall to SE and railings to E and NE of church, probably earlier C19, possibly from date of new chancel c1836-41.
Exterior
Churchyard gates and railings, spearhead wrought iron railings set in C20 concrete. Gates NE of church with two openwork piers the front and backs with vertical bars to lowest panels, then diagonal cross, then intersected half circles, and top of 4 scrolls joined under urn. Double gates with dog-bars, and top rails ramped down to meeting rail. Short length of rails to right, long length to left joining to a length of some 11 m of rubble wall with broad ogee-arched recess on churchyard face with rock-faced stone voussoirs flanked by raised piers of rockfaced stone with rockfaced pyramid caps.
Reason for designation
Included as good example of earlier C19 ironwork and for group value with the Church of Saint Cadoc.
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