Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to the Church of St Cynhaearn
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Ystumllyn
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92602, -4.19503
- Cadw reference
- 21547
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
St Cynhaearn stands isolated approximately 900m S of Pentrefelin village. The lychgate stands in front of the churchyard wall and provides the entrance to the rectangular churchyard from the SW.
History
The lychgate was probably erected in the C18 to provide shelter at the entrance to the graveyard.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework flushed with mortar, with an old irregular sized slate roof. A gated stile stands at the side of the stone-built storeroom added on its W side. Openings on each face of the lychgate have slate lintels, and the gable walls are returned to enclose the ends of stone benches internally each side. Pine roof, with slates fully torched, and single tier of purlins. Cast iron gate. The building is extended to the SW by a churchyard store with a lower pitched old slate roof.
Interior
Fixed to the internal walls of the lychgate are C18 slate headstones, including WK 1728; Jane Daniel 1761; Thomas Rowland, 1757 and Jane Jones, 1776.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple C18 lychgate having a vernacular character, of group value with the Church of St Cynhaearn.
Nearby in the register
- Gravestone of John YstymllynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of David OwenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Monuments to John Williams and Ellis OwenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Carreg and Pilkington TombsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.