Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to Church of St Mary
Llannerch-y-Medd, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanerchymedd, Llannerch-y-Medd, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 16 March 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2001
- Locality
- Llanerchymedd
- Community
- Llannerch-y-Medd
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33028, -4.37740
- Cadw reference
- 24970
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (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 N entrance to the rectangular churchyard to the Church of St Mary. At the S side of the Market Square in the centre of the village of Llanerchymedd.
History
Mid C18 lychgate, extensively remodelled in mid C19, probably when the adjacent church was rebuilt in 1850, architect H Kennedy of Bangor. Has a datestone above the archway inscribed with the date 1755.
Exterior
Mid C18 lychgate. Built of rubble, the entrance (S) elevation with freestone dressings and quoins; lateral walls rendered. Steeply pitched slate roof with gabled S bellcote; rendered copings. The S elevation faces the street and has 3 stone steps up to a pointed arched entrance hung with double gates; the side piers have raking plinths and a moulded springing courses. Above the entrance is a clock face in a moulded surround. The eaves have gabled finials at the angles and are scrolled at the head; apex surmounted by single gabled bellcote.
The N gable faces the church and has a cambered, brick-headed archway. An inscribed stone above bears the date 1755 and above the datestone is a circular, brick-lined window, now filled in with brick.
Interior
Rendered walls and modern boarded ceiling.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good mid C19 lychgate, of an unusual style and scale for Anglesey and which forms a group with the adjacent Church of St Mary.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- BrynkirDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Peniel and chapel houseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cottage, BachauDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.