Margam Stones Museum

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Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Cadw and Neath Port Talbot Council both say there is parking for 15 cars adjacent to the museum with no specific disabled bays, and neither states a charge or that it is free, so the status is recorded as unknown. The spaces are at the end of Abbey Road beside the churchyard, with a level path or road to the door. They lie outside the council's pay and display order for Margam Country Park, whose own car parks (Main, Orangery and others) charge £8.90 a day for a car from 1 April 2026, or £5.90 within two hours of closing; that tariff is the park's, not the museum's, but it is the fallback if the 15 spaces are full.

Driving pin: Cadw's own arrival point at the end of Abbey Road by the churchyard, 50 m from its marker on the museum. By road: Margam, 4 miles south-east of Port Talbot, off the A48, next to Margam Country Park. By rail: Port Talbot Parkway, 8.1 km. National Cycle Network route 4 passes 320 m away.

About

Margam Stones Museum, Amgueddfa Cerrig Margam, fills a small Victorian schoolhouse beside Margam Abbey church, one of the earliest church schools in Wales, with a remarkable collection of nearly 30 inscribed stones and crosses reaching back to the dawn of Christianity in Wales. The earliest are 6th-century memorials, some recycled from Roman milestones and one from the top of a Bronze Age barrow, carved in Latin and occasionally in ogham for chieftains of Irish descent, such as the bilingual stone to Pumpeius. Later come magnificent disc-headed and cartwheel crosses of the 9th and 10th centuries, above all the great Cross of Conbelin with its carved hunting scene. Upstairs, among medieval sculpture from the abbey, lie a 14th-century knight in chain mail with a small dragon at his feet and a gargoyle that voids rainwater through its backside. Visitors find it calm and reflective beside the church. Open summer Wednesdays, weekends and bank holidays only; out of season the stones can be glimpsed through the windows.

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Margam Stones MuseumClosed for the winter; reopens 3 April 2027, 10:00 – 15:00Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open 1 April to 30 September on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays only, 10am to 3pm, last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 1 October to 31 March, when it opens only for pre-arranged group visits of 10 or more with at least two weeks' notice by email to Cadw's estates team. No admission charge. Out of season most of the stones and some panels can be seen through the windows.

Terrain level 1, accessible: a level path from the parking to the door; the museum is on two levels and the upper floor is not accessible to wheelchair users; historic steps are narrow and steep. No toilets at the museum. A site guidebook is sold in selected Cadw visitor centres. Drones are not permitted.

Photo: The ground floor of Margam Stones Museum, with the great disc-headed Conbelin Cross at the centre among carved cross shafts and memorial stones beneath the gallery stair. RobinLeicester, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margam_Stones_Museum,_Wales.JPG. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.