Churchyard boundary wall running from Gwyn Yr Afon to the entrance into the later Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Boundary wall.

Churchyard boundary wall running from Gwyn Yr Afon to the entrance into the later Churchyard

WRENN ID
scarred-quartz-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 September 1986
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Churchyard boundary wall running from Gwyn Yr Afon to the entrance into the later Churchyard, Crickhowell, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 216 184
Coordinates
51.85912, -3.13961
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The churchyard boundary wall runs from Gwyn Yr Afon to the entrance of the later churchyard. This continuous stretch of rubble wall lines the road and serves as a revetment wall for the elevated churchyard, slightly increasing in height to the north. It curves around the corner to the west of the church and continues around the eastern end beyond the lychgate to the entrance of the later churchyard.

There is probably an 18th-century pointed arched southwest gateway featuring an advanced architrave, a corbelled parapet, and a keystone that leads to steps up to the footpath. To the left, there is a ramped walkway set back, with a further rubble wall in line with the road. Plain gate-piers with Gothic iron gates lead to the path to the west door. An undated view shows this section of the wall much as it is today, and its depiction of the original north aisle windows suggests a date before around 1765. The wall has pointed copings and curves around the corner, rising to a northwest pointed arched entrance with a keystone dated 1843.

The wall continues east along Silver Street, decreasing in height as the ground rises, and is broken by an opening opposite the north transept. It then turns south and runs along Church Lane to the freestone lychgate, which has a stone-tiled roof and arched trusses on massive corbels. The rubble wall continues south, with steps that curve towards gate piers that are not of special interest.

Local climate

Churchyard boundary wall running from Gwyn Yr Afon to the entrance into the later Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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