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Reference Number
81793
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Churchyard gates and piers to the Church of St Michael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322796
Northing
188041
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the churchyard of the Church of Saint Michael.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Pair of mid to later C19 cast-iron churchyard gates between stone Gothic piers, the gates presumably Newport-made.
Exterior
Churchyard gates with 2 sandstone piers, and twin cast-iron gates. Piers have light tooling, chamfered plinth, chamfered and stopped angles, Bath stone caps not projecting carrying large cross-gabled tops with quatrefoils in gables. Twin cast-iron gates of unusual elaboration, with several horizontal rails, double to top, treble to lock-rail, single across middle of lower part and double to bottom. Top part has alternate small and large spearhead finials and lower part has an openwork pattern mirrored above and below the single rail.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good pair of C19 cast-iron gates, of group value with the church.
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