Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26508
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/2002
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
The Bier House in St Andrew's Churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Dinas Powys
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Andrews Major
Easting
313842
Northing
171441
Street Side
Location
In the SW corner of the churchyard facing E.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
An unusual example of previously more common type of churchyard building; contains the bier on which coffins are carried for funerals. A building is shown in this area on the Tithe Map of 1840 though not on the first edition OS map surveyed 1878.
Exterior
Small single storey rubble stone building with ashlar dressings and a deep pitched slate roof. Gable end facade has a chamfered and decoratively stopped Tudor-arched doorway with a small rectangular 2-light chamfered mullioned window above; similar window in opposite gable end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a survival of an unusual building type. Group value with the church, the cross and the Old Rectory.
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