Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9624
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Easting
230243
Northing
211458
Street Side
Location
Old churchyard on northern outskirts of Town Centre bounded to N and E by rubble walls.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Retains a particularly fine collection of C18 and C19 monuments, including some marble and of classical style. Steps up to E with a 2-tier terrace, rubble revetment walls and further monuments. Funerary vaults exist beneath lower terrace, one with segmental voussoir arched entrance (blocked) has inscribed stone reading. "The Family Vault of Robert Holderness Esq. Laugharne 1873".
In the new churchyard there is a simple wooden cross at the grave of Dylan Thomas, died 1953.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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