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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17245
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1996
Date of Amendment
15/03/1996
Name of Property
Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New Cemetery
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanfoist Fawr
Town
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
329003
Northing
213821
Street Side
Location
At the main drive entrance to the New Cemetery from the narrow lane immediately to south of Usk Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The eastern end of New Cemetery was opened in 1894 and is landscaped in the style of a Victorian public park or garden. These gate-piers are presumed to be contemporary with the chapel and probably also designed by E A Johnson, architect of Abergavenny.
Exterior
Tall pair of Gothic gate-piers of bull-nosed rubble with enormous freestone caps in the manner of tabernacles. These are gabled and panelled with lancets and trefoils and are themselves surmounted by domical octagonal caps with foliated finials (missing to right). The wrought-iron gates are similarly Gothic with dog-bars and lock-bars. The entrance is flanked by curved rubble walls that turn outwards to join the boundary wall at the roadside.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the New Cemetery Chapel and Lychgate.
Abergavenny New Cemetery is included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in Wales No PGW (Gt) 37.
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