Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate and Steps to St Stephen's Church
Bodfari, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodfari Village, Bodfari, Denbighshire, designated on 16 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Bodfari Village
- Community
- Bodfari
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22008, -3.36086
- Cadw reference
- 26481
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To the south-west of St Stephen's Church
History
The flight of steps connecting the village with the church must originate with the church, but when the church was rebuilt in 1865 to the design of T. H. Wyatt he designed the lychgate and the rebuild of the steps.
Exterior
A lightly constructed timber-framed lychgate of two bays, with gables to front and rear. Slate roof overhanging at verges, with surviving iron finial at rear. The timber frame is painted black, with Gothic inserts painted white. Iron-spiked timber gates at front. Side seats. Flagged paving.
At the rear there are steps rising to the church, in two flights with a landing between. Stone posts and rails to the sides, also seats at each side of the landing.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with St Stephen's Church, and as a feature in a village centre of conservation importance.
Nearby in the register
- Dinorben Arms Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Hafod-tan-yr-eglwys (Formerly Ty-gwyn)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St StephenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old School and SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.