Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at Church of St Michael
Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 25 April 2002
- Locality
- Michaelston-le-Pit
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.44957, -3.22201
- Cadw reference
- 26488
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forming the churchyard entrance NE of the church.
History
Commemorates local soldiers killed in First World War. Dedicated in 1920.
Exterior
Lychgate which incorporates a war memorial. Main structure of unstained oak. The base or plinth is a stepped-up extension of the churchyard wall, with narrow wooden double gates with pierced lancets and quatrefoils, long decorative hinges and moulded and swept top rail. Gabled roof is slate covered with deeply overhanging sprocketed eaves, Tudor-arched main doorway, flanked by similar pierced lancets enriched by carved bunches of grapes on upper corners; inscription from St John's gospel over the lintel and further inscription on the crossed timbers attached to the boarded gable which is pierced by quatrefoils to side and a cross in apex. Side walls comprise panels of pierced lancets and quatrefoils divided by plain battered panels. W gable end is similar to E but with 7 quatrefoils above in place of the inscription.
Interior
Inside the porch are panelled pews against the side walls. A metal plaque commemorates the dead of the First World War.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine small timber building; group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Nos 1,2,3 Church CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The Old Dairy at Cwrt-yr-AlaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.