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Latitude: 51.7747 / 51°46'28"N
Longitude: -2.9242 / 2°55'27"W
OS Eastings: 336331
OS Northings: 208850
OS Grid: SO363088
Mapcode National: GBR F9.ZH8S
Mapcode Global: VH79G.8NGD
Plus Code: 9C3VQ3FG+V8
Entry Name: Gateway and railings to Clytha Park
Listing Date: 9 January 1956
Last Amended: 15 March 2000
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1967
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300001967
Location: Situated at main entry to Clytha Park on old A40 opposite junction with road to Bettws Newydd.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Abergavenny
Community: Llanarth (Llan-arth)
Community: Llanarth
Locality: Clytha
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Gate
Decorative Gothic entrance gate screen with gates, to Clytha Park. Built 1790 for William Jones of Clytha House to designs by John Nash. The outer walls and railings are probably C19, not shown in the 1801 engraving of the screen. The folly at Clytha Castle long thought to be also by Nash is now known to be by John Davenport.
Entrance screen and gates, with later railings each side. Bath stone ashlar Gothic style tripartite gateway, carriage arch flanked by pedestrian arches. Double iron gates to centre, single each side, all with ramped top rails, mid-rail with spearheads and dog-bars below.
Four ashlar piers with plain angle shafts and splayed plinths, cornice, carried over pedestrian gateway each side, and large crocketted finials with small square finials at angles. Over gateways is a running cresting of trefoils. Gateways have Tudor-arched heads with panelled spandrels. Over centre is tall moulded pointed arch with crocketting on outside carried up in ogee curve to top finial, the panel above the pointed arch cusped with 3-leaf ornament in relief.
Later wall and railing each side, ashlar low wall with iron rails and urn tops to stanchions. Serpentine curve, cross-gabled cap to ashlar pier each end with traceried panels to sides.
Grade II* as a fine example of the late C18 picturesque Gothic style, part of the romantic setting created by William Jones which included the Clytha Castle folly.
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