Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at Christ Church
Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, designated on 12 September 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 12 September 2001
- Locality
- Prestatyn
- Community
- Prestatyn
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33370, -3.40282
- Cadw reference
- 25742
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 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)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
At entrance to Christ Church graveyard.
History
Probably contemporary with and by the same architect as the first phase of Christ Church, which was completed in 1863 to the design of T H Wyatt.
Exterior
Lychgate built into the west wall of Christ Churchyard facing High Street but set back behind an area paved in modern bricks. It consists of a timber superstructure on corbels projecting from the faces of side walls of local limestone, with a double hipped slate roof and a ridge of decorative crest tiles. The side walls have buttresses to front and rear with offsets coped in freestone. Modern steel gates.
Reason for designation
A modestly designed lychgate contemporary with Christ Church and providing a picturesque entry to the churchyard, and of group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- War Memorial at Christ ChurchCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Christ Church VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Presents With A DifferenceCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.