Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25839
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/10/2001
Date of Amendment
31/10/2001
Name of Property
Coychurch Cemetery Entrance Walls, Gates and Pillar
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Coychurch Lower
Town
Locality
Coychurch
Easting
293081
Northing
180139
Street Side
Location
On the hillside above Coychurch on the main road to Coity and just E of the late C20 estate development of Brackla.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Complex built in 1970 as the Mid Glamorgan Crematorium by architect Maxwell Fry of Fry Drew and Partners, engineer and surveyor Mansel Matthews, contractors Arthur Phillips and Son. Some later C20 alterations to lodge.
Exterior
Cemetery entrance comprises to left a tall and uneven pillar of roughly coursed stone with echos of a cenotaph, standing in front of a low curved rubble wall with assymetrical gateway comprising semi-circular pier to left and a swept wall to right and metal double gates. The wall extends to right to incorporate a much altered lodge.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the designed cemetery complex and for group value with the Chapel of Remembrance and the main chapel complex of Capel Crallo and Capel Coity.
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