Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Margaret Marloes
Eglwyscummin, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 12 January 2001
- Locality
- Eglwyscummin
- Town
- Whitland
- Community
- Eglwyscummin
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76630, -4.56526
- Cadw reference
- 24489
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the entrance to the churchyard on the N side of the B4314, some 2.5km SE of Rhos-goch.
History
Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Margaret Marloes, erected in 1930 as a memorial to Walter Lloyd of East Pool farm.
Exterior
Lychgate, oak frame on grey limestone side walls with slate roof. Side walls are built into churchyard encircling bank, with raised piers on inner faces for timber gates (replaced to different design in August 2000). W side plaque 'Erected by Mrs Morson to her parents 1930'. E side incorporates a rounded boulder stone. Oak frame has open timber framing each side, vertical studs with mid-rail. Three tie-beams with cambered top sides, outer ones carrying timber framing of end gables, vertical studs and cross motif to centre. Overhanging verges with bargeboards. Shaped brackets under front and back trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed oak lychgate at the entry to a circular Celtic churchyard, of group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Treherne Cross at Church of St Margaret MarloesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Cross at Church of St Margaret MarloesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St Margaret MarloesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Deserted Medieval SettlementDeserted Medieval Villageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.