2377

 

II  

Designated  

01/11/1974  

10/11/2005  

Town Walls (remains of) behind Nevill Street  

 

Monmouthshire  

Abergavenny  

Abergavenny  

Abergavenny  

329768  

214250  

N  

Running behind the gardens of the north-west side of Nevill Street along the lane entered through No. 69 Frogmore Street and going round to the back of the Kings Arms.  

Defence  

 

Fragments of medieval town walls built first in the C14 when Abergavenny had a complete circuit with four gates. This section ran from the North Gate (demolished late C18) in Frogmore Street to the Tudor Street Gate (demolished after 1802) which gave access to the road leading down to Usk Bridge (qv Merthyr Road). It was partially demolished and rebuilt in the centuries following the Civil War in the mid C17 so that very little ancient fabric now remains.  

Red sandstone rubble. Only a few of the facing stones at the base can be considered ancient, the rest, some of which is about 4m in height, has been rebuilt later, some of it quite recently. The wall forms the garden boundary to Nos. 5-29 (odd) Nevill Street and is at its highest behind No.11.  

 

Included for its special historic interest as a fragment of the medieval town walls of Abergavenny.