Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lych-gate to the church of St John
Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandenny, Usk, Raglan, Monmouthshire, designated on 31 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Llandenny
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Raglan
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73079, -2.84837
- Cadw reference
- 24737
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the entrance to Llandenny churchyard in Llandenny village.
History
Lychgate of uncertain date, possibly late medieval or C16, reconstructed as part of the church restoration by G.E.Halliday of Cardiff in 1900, as a memorial to the 2nd Lord Raglan.
Exterior
Lych-gate, two dressed stone walls with rough coping and finials supporting narrow stone slate roof on Tudor-arched ovolo-moulded bressumers of 1900. Wooden gates within. On W end a re-used unfinished C16 dripstone. Said to incorporate medieval worked stone with masons marks similar to those at Raglan Castle. Pink granite tablet records restoration in memory of the 2nd Lord Raglan.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the Church of St. John, Llandenny.
Nearby in the register
- Cross in St John's churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. John's Churchyard Cross, LlandennyCross baseunder 1 mi
- Church of St JohnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Barn at Village FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.