Churchyard Walls & Gates to Church of St Illtud

The churchyard walls and gates of the Church of St Illtud are made of limestone rubble and stand about 1.5 meters high, featuring mostly an up-and-down coping. At the east entrance, there are 19th-century gate piers and iron gates set above a flight of ten rounded steps with solid stone balustrades. The iron gates have circular uprights topped with spear-headed finials above the top rail. The smaller west churchyard gate, also from the 19th century, has circular uprights with finials rising above the top and middle rails, flanked by stone gate piers with pyramidal coping. At the south-east entrance, a pair of stone gate piers with pyramidal coping flanks a pair of tall 19th-century iron gates, which also feature circular uprights with spear-headed finials above the top rail. To the south of the west churchyard entrance, the walls divide into two sections at a point roughly parallel to the ruined Chantry Priest’s house. The low south-west wall runs along the stream beside the road, and where the stream crosses under the road, just north-east of the steps to Hillhead, this wall returns to the Chantry House. The other wall extends back to the north-west end of the former Chantry Priest’s House.