Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate of Church of St. John the Baptist
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Radyr
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50352, -3.24135
- Cadw reference
- 13782
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
At the south entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St. John the Baptist.
History
1899, designed by G E Halliday.
Exterior
Timber structure supported on low walls of Radyr stone; gabled roof, tile covered, with cruciform finial. Heavy wooden double gate of single span which swings on a central pivot; pulleys. Plaque on south-west side of lych gate which says ''THIS GATE WAS ERECTED BY FRANKLIN GEORGE EVANS JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR GLAMORGAN & MONMOUTH OF LLWYNARTHAN CASTLETON, MONMOUTH FORMERLY OF TYNANT RADYR AND FOR 12 YEARS CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH AD 1899 G E HALLIDAY ARCHITECT ''.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Church of St. John the Baptist.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Walls of Church of St. John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- FairwoodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Radyr ChainDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.