Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno
Clynnog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfon, Clynnog, Gwynedd, designated on 29 May 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Clynnog-fawr
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Clynnog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02101, -4.36464
- Cadw reference
- 22351
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The lychgate opens directly off the main road at the centre of the village, and leads into the W corner of the churchyard opposite the E end of the chancel.
History
Built in the late medieval period as the main entrance to the churchyard.
Exterior
Built of granite with a pitched slate roof. Double gate entry from the road to a wide interior paved with pebbles, and slate and slopes down to the wide opening to the churchyard. Both openings are covered by a large single slab of stone of irregular shape, on further corbel slabs, the inner opening having a square opening to admit more light set asymmetrically above the lintel. The entry against the road appears to have been originally arched.
Interior
The roof is carried on re-used oak purlins and a ridge and has open rafters with plaster between each. The passage has one shallow recessed seat each side immediately behind the outer gates, perhaps for mendicant pilgrims.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a late medieval lychgate to a churchyard, and of group value with the Grade I Church of St Beuno and other structures at the centre of Clynnog-fawr.
Nearby in the register
- Bod CybiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Eben FarddReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Court HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St Beuno, with attached Chapel of St BeunoReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.