Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire

[note 1][12] These consist of twenty-four churches, a priory and an abbey, eight castles, seven houses, two bridges, a barn, a cross, a farm, a folly, a gatehouse, a hotel, a municipal building, a stables, and two elements of town walls.

[20] Among the Grade I listed structures Hando described were "the tallest house in Monmouthshire" at Treowen,[21] "the most crooked church in Britain" at Cwmyoy,[22] and the Arts and Crafts sgraffito at Llanfair Kilgeddin.

[26] William Wordsworth undertook the Wye Tour in 1798, composing Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey during his visit,[27] and Walter Savage Landor sought, unsuccessfully, to establish a landed estate at Llanthony Priory.

[note 2][30] A statue in front of the Shire Hall commemorates Charles Stewart Rolls, the aviator and entrepreneur who was the first Briton to be killed in a plane crash.

[note 3] Coxe's Preface explains the Tour's genesis; "The present work owes its origin to an accidental excursion in Monmouthshire, in company with my friend Sir Richard Hoare, during the autumn of 1798.

I was struck with the picturesque ruins of ancient castles, and I was animated with the view of mansions distinguished by the residence of illustrious persons".