Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at the Church of St Tewdric
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61481, -2.68963
- Cadw reference
- 24062
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
In the centre of Mathern village about 50m north east of the Church of St Tewdric.
History
A probably late C19 lych-gate with no inscription.
Exterior
A traditional lych-gate, constructed of stone and oak with a tiled roof. The side walls are of coursed squared white limestone rubble with red sandstone ashlar to the ends and coping. These walls each carry an oak plate supporting three posts carrying arch braced collar beams. The collars are cranked and brattished and carry king-posts which support the steeply pitched roof, which has elaborately carved bargeboards and serrated ridge tiles.
Reason for designation
Included as a well designed and constructed lych-gate having group value with the important nearby Church of St Tewdric.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St TewdricReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mathern VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard House at Mathern PalaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Barn at Mathern PalaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.