Survey Data
Reg No
40902527
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1600 - 1900
Coordinates
195536, 433356
Date Recorded
03/03/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Graveyard on trapezoidal plan with fieldstone boundary wall, containing pre-1700 church in ruins, large ringed cross, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century grave-markers. Rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins to church with four round-headed windows with splayed reveals. Pointed-arch doorway with stop-chamfered jambs.
Appraisal
A small rural graveyard with the remains of a church that was repaired or rebuilt post-1622. It continued in use until the new church of Saint Paul was built in 1805. It is now a National Monument and has been a site of religious significance for over a thousand years.