Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to Church of St Cynwyl
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 September 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 September 2000
- Locality
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.92225, -4.36662
- Cadw reference
- 23991
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 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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 211 Newcastle Emlyn (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Cynwyl, near the centre of Cynwyl Elfed village NE of Pont Cynwyl.
History
C19 timber lychgate by J P Seddon as part of the restoration of 1876-7.
Exterior
Lychgate, painted oak with slate hipped roof. Two square posts with arch-braces on 4 sides: those E and W carry cross-beams with moulded ends, longer outer ones carry roof hip, and inner ones carry roof ridge. Posts above cross-beams up to ridge. Diagonal boarding under slates, shaped rafter ends. Two iron gates with spearhead rails and dog-bars. Crested clay ridge tiles.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual piece of High Victorian timber design by a leading Victorian architect, and as part of a group with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint CynwylReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gates and railings to Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cynwyl Elfed Anti-invasion DefencesAnti Invasion Defence Siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.