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
9624
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Easting
230243
Northing
211458
Street Side
Location
Old churchyard on northern outskirts of Town Centre bounded to N and E by rubble walls.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Retains a particularly fine collection of C18 and C19 monuments, including some marble and of classical style. Steps up to E with a 2-tier terrace, rubble revetment walls and further monuments. Funerary vaults exist beneath lower terrace, one with segmental voussoir arched entrance (blocked) has inscribed stone reading. "The Family Vault of Robert Holderness Esq. Laugharne 1873".
In the new churchyard there is a simple wooden cross at the grave of Dylan Thomas, died 1953.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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