Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate and Boundary Wall to St John's Churchyard
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Locality
- Colwyn Bay
- Community
- Colwyn Bay
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29683, -3.73277
- Cadw reference
- 14675
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The wall bounds the church yard to Conway Road, returning up Pwllycrochan Avenue, with the lychgate at the angle of the 2 lengths of wall.
History
The boundary walls and gates were erected on the church site in 1881, although the church itself was not completed until 1888. The lychgate was probably designed by the architect of the church, Robert Curwen of London and Liverpool, but the boundary walls are of a type common in this part of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
Rough random rubble to boundary walls, polygonal black granite to lychgate, with freestone dressings, including the raking gabled roof. Deep moulded archway with inscribed band and plain chamfered responds in either side of the gabled lychgate, clasped by buttresses terminating in pinnacles with traceried arcaded bands. Low chamfered timber gates, with openwork panels, with cross braced timber in the upper panels, and wrought iron below.
Boundary walls have rustic embattled parapets,raised at intervals over lancet-like recesses. The wall terminates at each end of the church yard in polygonal turretted gate piers.
Reason for designation
Part of a group with the church of Saint John, the lychgate is an excellent and
robustly detailed example of its type.
Nearby in the register
- Methodist Church of St John, with attached Hall and Former Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St Joseph including attached presbyteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old House, Rydal SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.