MEDIEVAL AND EARLY POST-MEDIEVAL CHURCHES AND CHAPELS: A THREAT-RELATED ASSESSMENT 2010-11

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As part of Cadw’s threat-related assessment programme, this project reviewed the condition and significance of churches and chapels across southwest Wales. Many of the nearly 2,000 known sites are later post-medieval chapels or still-active buildings and so lay outside the study’s scope. Instead, attention focused on 129 sites where only ruins, foundations, or earthworks survive, with field visits to 51 of them. The survey identified a number of high-quality medieval and early post-medieval churches and chapels, some with standing masonry several metres high, that currently lack legal protection. Supported by historical records and archaeological evidence, over fifteen sites were recommended for scheduling as Ancient Monuments.