Altar tomb in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1997. Memorial.
Altar tomb in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- small-pediment-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1997
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Altar tomb in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels, Llanvihangel Pontymoel, Pontypool, New Inn
- OS grid reference
- SO 301 010
- Coordinates
- 51.70422, -3.01282
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The altar tomb in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels is a memorial designed in a Neo-classical style, resembling a Roman altar. It features a square base set on a square plinth. The shaft of the tomb is adorned with corner pilasters that have moulded bases and a cornice. At the top, the cap includes acroteria at the corners and pediments in between. The faces of the shaft bear damaged inscriptions, with the earliest commemorating an individual who died in 1856.
Local climate
Altar tomb in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Unidentified Monument in Churchyard and to South of East End of South Aisle of St Michael's Church
- 2 Tomb to South of Church of St. Michael and All Angels
- 3 Pair of memorials approximately 50 yards south-west of west tower of Church of St. Michael and All Angels
- 4 Unidenified Monument, About 9m East of Vestry in Churchyard of Church of St Michael and All Angels
- 5 Pedestal Tomb About 35 Yards South-West of the Church of St Michael
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings