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Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry is a medieval chapel and its associated graveyard, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. The site occupies ground underlain by Caradoc Rocks, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone deposited during the Caradocian period of the Ordovician era. This geology is characteristic of the borderlands and upland regions of Wales, where such sedimentary bedrock often produced heavy clay soils suitable for pastoral agriculture and monastic settlement. The chapel would have served the local community for worship and burial throughout the medieval period. Its survival as an archaeological site, despite the subsequent changes to Welsh settlement and religious practice, reflects its position within a landscape of continuing habitation and spiritual significance.
Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE098. View the official record →
Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry is a medieval chapel and its associated graveyard, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference PE098.
Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a chapel. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE098.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pant-Glas Round Barrow (4.2 km), Llanglydwen Churchyard Cross (5.4 km), Lan Round Barrows (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Chapel and Burial Ground near Tre-Henry stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.