Wyatt and Nichol Family Graves in St Mary's churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 February 1990. Grave monument.
Wyatt and Nichol Family Graves in St Mary's churchyard
- WRENN ID
- vacant-pedestal-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1990
- Type
- Grave monument
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Large centre grave with parallel recumbent polished red granite slabs with hipped tops and a Byzantine cross to the interstice. Inscriptions commemorate Eleanor Nichol (died 1850), her daughter (died 1850) and other members of the family. Stone plinth. Around the rectangular grave enclosure is an elaborate cast-iron railing with barley-sugar twist uprights bearing paterae and fluted finials. Openwork scrolls with Romanesque-style foliage finials and cresting to horizontal panels and rails. (Ironwork partly broken along S side, Nov 1989).
To N is a single recumbent grey granite slab with hipped top and stonework plinth. Inscriptions commemorate William Henry Nichol (died 1874) and Elizabeth Nichol (died 1913). Lower ironwork enclosure with openwork, cusped panels with finials to centre of quatrefoils; polygonal uprights to angles with ball-finials. (Top rail and N side badly broken, Nov 1989).
To S is a single recumbent polished red granite slab with chamfered edges bearing a plain white stone cross. Indistinct lettering reads: "Here rest the remains of Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt Kt born 28 July 1820. Died 21 May 1877". His wife is commemorated along N side and the monument is signed "T H W" (Thomas Henry Wyatt). Lower ironwork enclosure with slender ironwork scrolls in Romanesque style to panels between polygonal uprights; extravagant foiliage or petals to twisted bud finials, pendant foliage to uprights.
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