Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at W entrance to Church of St Eilian
Llaneilian, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llaneilian, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 24 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 January 2001
- Locality
- Llaneilian
- Community
- Llaneilian
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.41050, -4.30418
- Cadw reference
- 24549
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the western entrance to the churchyard to the Church of St Eilian.
History
The lychgate is of a characteristic local type, presumed to be late C18 or early C19. This lychgate is cruder in style and may predate that to the S entrance of the church.
Exterior
Rubblestone lychgate with a shallow cambered, rough stone voussoir arch to a double gated entrance; above the arch there is an advanced string as dripcourse. The central part of the entrance walling is raised above the archway to a flat coping, raking coping to each side over broad piers c1.5m in length, which terminate at a slightly higher level than the flanking walling into which the lychgate was inserted. Gates have alternate short and tall vertical rails terminating in arrowhead finials; flat lockrail and head rail raised up to centre.
Reason for designation
Included as a good rural lychgate of characteristic local type which forms a group with the adjacent Church of St Eilian.
Nearby in the register
- Cross in churchyard of Church of St EilianReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to S entrance of Church of St EilianReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St EilianReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tan y FynwentDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.