Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at St Tudor's Church Mynyddislwyn
Ynysddu, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1999
- Locality
- Mynyddislwyn
- Community
- Ynysddu
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63864, -3.16681
- Cadw reference
- 22315
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
On the N side of the churchyard adjacent to the Church Inn, forming the main entrance to the walled churchyard.
History
Probably contemporary with the rebuilding work on the church c 1820.
Exterior
Lychgate is a symmetrical almost square building of tooled stone and coursed rubble with a pyramidal tiled roof and overhanging eaves; eilliptical archways with voussoirs and a string course at impost level; iron gates with roundel motif. Service board attached to front.
Interior
Stone benches are on either side of the wall.
Reason for designation
An unusually well-designed lychgate which has group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Tudor MynyddislwynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Twyn TudorMotteunder 1 mi
- Caerllwyn Isaf and attached byre/stableDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ton-eithinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.