Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Cenydd's Lychgate
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangennith village, Swansea, Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton, designated on 3 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 March 2000
- Locality
- Llangennith village
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59995, -4.27021
- Cadw reference
- 22886
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 246 Worms Head (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the north entrance to St Cenydd's churchyard, Llangennith
History
St Cenydd's lychgate was donated to the church in 1903, and contains later gate-panel carvings by a local craftsman, W H Melling.
Exterior
Timber-framed lychgate to the north west of the churchyard, with double timber gates.
The structure stands on four corner-posts with large curved braces to the tie-beams. Large verge overhang carried on curved brackets and large, generously scalloped bargeboards to front and rear. Low pitched slated roof with tile ridge. Quatrefoil-pierced fascias above tie-beams front and rear. Three open lights each side with gothic tracery and cinquefoil scalloping. Rendered panels below the side lights, a shallow seat each side, stone plinths.
The gates, added later, have posts carved with animals and panels carved with scenes of the lives of St Cenydd and St David. Stone paving from gates to road.
Reason for designation
Listed as the only known lychgate at a Gower churchyard, picturesquely designed and of group value with St Cenydd's chuch.
Nearby in the register
- Well opposite St Cenydd's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St CenyddReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Cennydd's Church Cross-shaftCross shaftunder 1 mi
- Barn attached to Church with Roadside RangeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.