Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to Parish Church
Llantrisant Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 June 2000
- Locality
- Llantrissent/Llantrisant
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Llantrisant Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66777, -2.88101
- Cadw reference
- 23493
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
Situated to SE of parish church, in churchyard wall
History
Lychgate to parish church, erected 1918 to memory of Lady Elizabeth Sarah Legge of Ysgubor Wen.
Exterior
Lychgate, timber frame on rubble stone. Low rubble stone side walls, battered returns each end and sandstone coping. Wooden benches within, and paired oak front gates with top rail ramped down. Oak upper part has paired posts each side, outer posts with brackets carrying the bargeboards, inner posts flanking Tudor-arched lintel with pendant under brattished collar beam. Inscription to front 'Teach me to live that I may dread the grave as little as my bed', and to rear 'Teach me to die that I may raise glorious at the awful day' . Open framing above, row of 7 curved brackets carrying jettied moulded collar and studding. Bargeboards and pendant. Plain tiles to roof. Sides have vertical studs with small spandrel pieces. Two longitudinal arch braces inside carry rafter roof and centre collar truss.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed and well-made early C20 lychgate, of group value with the parish church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saints Peter, Paul and JohnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Churchyard CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- TribwthinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Ty MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.