Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to St Mellons Church
Old St. Mellons, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Mellons, Cardiff, Old St. Mellons, designated on 6 October 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- St Mellons
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Old St. Mellons
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52665, -3.11238
- Cadw reference
- 13943
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated by the road at the entrance to a drive which leads uphill to church, churchyard and other buildings including Church Lodge and other dwellings.
History
Late C19- to early C20.
Exterior
Lychgate at entry to Church Lane. Timber-framed with slate gabled roof side-on to road, red tile ridge and elaborate crowning metal cruciform finial; supported at each end by tall wooden posts with shaped braces; stone plinth. Interior of roof is boarded and the thick rafters are scalloped at ends. Two wood-framed gates, each 3 panels wide and 2 deep, of open cusped wooden panelling to the upper row and of metalwork below, long metal hinges. Lock rails of gates have continuous inscription on E side: "Arglwydd par i mi wybod, fi niwedd, a pheth yw mesur/fy nyddiau, fel y gwypwyf o ba oedran y byddaf fi;" W side inscribed with translation : "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure/of my days, what it is , that I may know how frail I am" (Psalm 39, v 4). Similar smaller pedestrian gates either side.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed lychgate for group value with the church and other listed items in the churchyard.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MellonReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bluebell Inn PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- The White Hart PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Memorial to Joseph Benjamin Hemingway in St Mellons churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.