Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate of the Church of St Nicholas
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2001
- Locality
- Trellech
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74549, -2.72494
- Cadw reference
- 24915
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 Trellech village immediately to the south of the Church of St Nicholas.
History
A lychgate of c1908, see below and The Croft.
Exterior
It is constructed of coursed red sandstone blocks with a stone slate roof and oak gates. The square pyramidal roof is supported on one side by a stone wall and on the other directly off the wall of The Croft on a corbel bracket. Double oak gates with swept tops. The apex of the roof is crowned by a cross.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the other listed buildings in the centre of Trellech village.
Nearby in the register
- The CroftEducationunder 1 mi
- Trellech Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Cross in the churchyard of the Church of St NicholasReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Double Barn to the north of Trellech FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.