Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at Christ Church
Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales
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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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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.