Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate and attached wall descending to the Cathedral
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Llandaff
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49524, -3.21826
- Cadw reference
- 13707
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The entrance to the Cathedral from The Cathedral Green.
History
Dating probably from c1870. Built as part of the restoration of Llandaff Cathedral and designed by John Prichard. The wall is quite different in character and apparently more recent than the wall down to the east end of the Cathedral. John Speed in 1610 shows a stream running from St. Teilo's spring down both lines and no walls at all.
Exterior
Both built of pink Radyr and grey Forest of Dean sandstones. Lychgate with pointed arch and stepped hipped stone roof with cruciform finial, stone modillions, buttresses, oak double gates. Wall extends downhill from the lychgate as far as the Prebendal House, interrupted by a flight of steps to the Cathedral. Low wall with castellated ramped stone coping. Flight of steps to the cathedral flanked by Radyr stone piers.
Reason for designation
Included as a handsome lychgate designed by John Prichard and having group value with the Cathedral and all the listed buildings on The Cathedral Green.
Nearby in the register
- Setts paving the Path leading from the Lychgate to the CathedralReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- No. 2 White HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall of Nos. 1 & 2 White HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 1 White HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.