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16-579: Grosmont may refer to: Grosmont, Monmouthshire , a village in Monmouthshire, Wales Grosmont Castle , a ruined castle in Grosmont, Monmouthshire Grosmont, North Yorkshire , a small village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England Grosmont Priory , a former monastery Grosmont railway station Grosmont, Alberta ,

32-632: A mayor and an official ale taster. Grosmont Town Hall replaced a former timber structure and was built in 1832 by the then landowner the 6th Duke of Beaufort , whose descendant offered it to the Grosmont Parish Council in May 1902. The Church of St Nicholas probably has ancient origins but the tower and other parts were built by Prince Edmund (son of Henry III of England and later Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ) for his mother Eleanor of Provence (Queen Eleanor). The 14th century church

48-533: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada Grosmont Formation , a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin People [ edit ] Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster ( c.  1310 –1361), an English statesman, diplomat, soldier, and Christian writer, named for Grosmont Castle See also [ edit ] Grossmont (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

64-454: Is built of Old Red Sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It comprises the nave, transepts , the central tower, a chancel , a secondary chapel and a porch. The interior is "a shock to the modern visitor who encounters an uncluttered medieval interior dominated by the arcades and roof". The unfurnished nave demonstrates the "strong early thirteenth century arcades to the full". The architectural historian John Newman describes

80-571: Is dedicated to St Nicholas and was restored by J. P. Seddon in 1869. It has an unusual eight-sided tower. Grosmont is linked to the Welsh Prince Owain Glyndŵr and during the Glyndwr rebellion it was the site of a battle in 1405. Glyndwr's ally and trusted Captain Rhys Gethin raised a force of maybe 8,000 men that marched on Grosmont burning the town to the ground. At this time Grosmont

96-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grosmont, Monmouthshire There are circumstantial indications that Grosmont may have originated as an Iron Age camp. Grosmont Castle , along with the nearby White Castle and Skenfrith Castle , have given rise to the Three Castles Walk which links the castles and along with the Monnow Valley Walk brings visitors to

112-478: The battle but were imprisoned in the Tower of London . The Anglican "saint" Lydia Sellon was brought up at Port-y-seal in Grosmont in the 1820s before she went on to found and lead a religious order for women. In the summer of 2006 the pub and village were the location for the film The Baker released in 2007. The Angel public house in Grosmont was owned and run by a group of villagers until December 2014 when it

128-472: The parish of Grosmont. Morning prayers at held at the church each Tuesday, as are Sunday services. The church is a "noble Early English building crowned by an octagonal Decorated tower and spire". Simon Jenkins considers the "ambitious cruciform plan" with octagonal tower to be "French" in inspiration. Cadw notes the tradition that the architect was French, employed by Eleanor of Provence but records that this "has no documentary basis". The church

144-511: The roof's construction. It is considered "the only surviving pre-1400 church roof in Wales". The nave remains largely unrestored, but the rest of the church is later. By the late 19th century the church was close to collapse and was saved through an extensive reconstruction in 1869–79 by J. P. Seddon. The work was largely funded by John Etherington Welch Rolls of The Hendre , a local landowner and benefactor. The church remains an active church in

160-452: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grosmont . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grosmont&oldid=1197649204 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

176-408: The scale of the "great cruciform church mark(ed) the important standing of Grosmont during the early medieval period. The church was constructed in the early 13th and the roof of the nave is datable to c.1232, making it the oldest scientifically datable roof in Wales. Tree-ring dating of the timbers show that they were felled in the period 1214–1244, which confirms the exceptionally early date of

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192-424: The village of Grosmont , Monmouthshire , Wales, is a parish church dating from the 13th century. Its exceptional size reflects the importance and standing of the borough of Grosmont at the time of the church's construction and has led it to be called a "miniature cathedral". Largely unaltered from the time of its building, by the 19th century the church had seriously decayed and its tower was close to collapsing. It

208-598: The village. Grosmont is dominated by the nearby Graig Syfyrddin (or Edmunds Tump, possibly after Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ). The castle itself was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066. It was the birthplace of Henry, 1st Duke of Lancaster . Grosmont was once an important medieval township. It was granted a borough charter, possibly in 1219, and by 1250 there may have been as many as 160 burgage plots. It retained its corporation status until 1857, at which time it still had

224-620: Was a large and important settlement - only Abergavenny and Carmarthen were larger in the whole of South Wales . Prince Henry, later to become King Henry V , dispatched a force comprising men led by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , Sir William Newport and Sir John Greynder from Hereford to intercept the Welsh force. They fell on them and defeated the Welsh, killing 800 to 1,000 men and capturing Owen ap Gruffydd ap Rhisiant, Glyndwr's Secretary and John Hanmer, Glyndwr's brother in law, who both survived

240-438: Was rescued from dereliction in a restoration undertaken by John Pollard Seddon and financed by John Etherington Welch Rolls . An active parish church, it is a Grade I listed building . Medieval Grosmont, with its stone castle founded by Hubert de Burgh in the 13th century and site of the birth of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in the early 14th century, was an important medieval lordship. Cadw records that

256-652: Was taken over by private landlords, Anna and Trevor Woolnough. The wider community of Grosmont includes the villages (and Monmouthshire Council wards) of Llangattock Lingoed , Llangua and Llanvetherine . Grosmont community elects a community council of nine members who meet at Grosmont Town Hall. Located near the currently closed Pontrilas railway station in Herefordshire , on the Welsh Marches Line between Abergavenny and Hereford . Church of St Nicholas, Grosmont The Church of St Nicholas in

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