Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish
- WRENN ID
- lone-terrace-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish, Laugharne Township, SA33 4QP
- OS grid reference
- SN 302 114
- Coordinates
- 51.77599, -4.46204
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard at St. Martin's Parish contains a notable collection of 18th and 19th-century monuments, featuring some in marble and of classical design. There are steps leading east to a two-tier terrace, with rubble revetment walls and additional monuments. Beneath the lower terrace, there are funerary vaults, one of which has a blocked segmental voussoir arched entrance and an inscribed stone that reads, "The Family Vault of Robert Holderness Esq. Laugharne 1873." In the new churchyard, there is a simple wooden cross marking the grave of Dylan Thomas, who died in 1953.
Local climate
Churchyard at St. Martin's Parish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- 4 Group of 3 Monuments in the Churchyard Immediately South East of South Transept to Church of St Martin
- 5 Lord Family Monument in the Churchyard Approximately 5m South West of South Transept to Church of St Martin
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