Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 June 2003. Gravestone.
Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railings
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-courtyard-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 June 2003
- Type
- Gravestone
- Address
- Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railings, Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 103
- Coordinates
- 51.78326, -3.37971
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay is a large single slab made of pink conglomerate stone, measuring approximately 1.8 meters by 3 meters and weighing around 30 tons. It features raised bronze letters that read:
ROBERT THOMPSON CRAWSHAY
DIED MAY 10TH 1879
AGED 62 YEARS
GOD FORGIVE ME
The gravestone is surrounded by a coping of pink conglomerate stone, which is topped with fine cast-iron railings. These railings have both top and bottom horizontal rails, square section uprights with spearheads, and cast-iron columns at the corners that support urns on short round pedestals.
Local climate
Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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