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St Margarets Chapel

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00642w
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Coedffranc
Unitary authority : Neath Port Talbot
NGR : SS70509398
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Chapel
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
Chapel of St Margaret's Grange, belonging to Neath Abbey (Williams 2001, 149-50 fig 61, 308).

Description :
Chapel of St Margaret's Grange, belonging to Neath Abbey (Williams 2001, 149-50 fig 61, 308). First record of St Margaret's chapel in 1289; excavations before 1931 revealed outline of a building; finds included a stoup, part of a piscina, tiles, stained glass and parts of three female skeletons (OS card OS 79 SW 5); walls still standing (Cadw Field Monument Warden report). Associated with St Margaret's Grange (PRN 906w) and St Margaret's well (PRN 907w)
Evans 2003: GGAT 73 Early-Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project database

Sources :
Smith E.G. , 1931 , St Margaret's Chapel, Coedffranc , Neath Antiquarian Society : II : 29-31
Williams, D H , 2001 , The Welsh Cistercians
Evans EM, 2003-04, GGAT 73 Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project

Events :
E000453 : ST MARGARETS CHAPEL, PARTIAL EXCAVATION, 1931 (year : 1931)
E007045 : Swansea North Sub-Station, New Overhead Line (VE), Swansea (year : 2010-12)
E007733 : Carn Nicholas Farm, Bon-y-maen, Swansea (year : 2019)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 32356 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/32356/details
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00906w
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00907w

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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