Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lych Gate with attached Churchyard Walls at the Church of St Mary
Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Halkyn, Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 31 January 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2002
- Locality
- Halkyn
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Halkyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23154, -3.18657
- Cadw reference
- 26157
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The lych gate is on the W side of the church.
History
Probably 1877 and contemporary with the church.
Exterior
The lych gate has dwarf walls of snecked stone supporting open timber-framed sides of 2 arched bays. The bell-cast roof is supported by cambered tie beams (with inscription from Psalms to the W side) with king post and curving struts. The roof projects forward from the tie beams on brackets. The slate roof has cusped bargeboards. In the centre are double wooden gates.
The lych gate is within a semi-circular recess to the W boundary wall of the churchyard. The attached walls define the W and S sides of the chuchyard, and are of rubble stone with saddleback coping.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed lych gate and for the important contribution of lych gate and walls to the setting of the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Church SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Top LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Halkyn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.