Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Steps, Gates and Gatepiers to W of St Cyngar's Church
Hope, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 6 May 1998
- Locality
- Hope
- Community
- Hope
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11830, -3.03349
- Cadw reference
- 19758
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
On the W side of the churchyard, facing the main road.
History
Mid-late C19 gates and gatepiers erected in memory of the Reverend J Williams; relocated (2m) following road widening in 1978.
Exterior
Rusticated rock-cut sandstone gatepiers approximately 2.8m high with chamfered bases, plain cornice and moulded capping. These are surmounted by Gothic cast iron lamp standards with open trefoil decoration to 4-branch bases. Inscription stones (with inscised memorial dedication) to front face of each pier. Fine cast iron gates in Gothic style with open tracery lower section and quatrefoils and arcading to upper section; spear-head finials to lower section and cusped, pointed- arched heads to the upper section, with surmounting fleur-de-lis type finials (several missing). To either side of the gatepiers are 2m high sections of similar rock-faced wall stretching for some 4m to either side. These then continue with the sloped-down churchyard revetment walls. The walls return eastwards into the churchyard as revetments flanking 2 flights of 5 steps each which ascend behind the gates.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the Church of St Cyngar.
Nearby in the register
- Railed Tomb Monument 30m NW of St Cyngar's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Railed Vault Structure immediately N of the Tower at St Cyngar's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Railed and Raised Tomb immediately W of St Cyngar's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial Base at St Cyngar's ChurchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.