Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at the Parish Church of St Deiniol, including walls and railings to churchyard
Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, designated on 20 October 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 20 October 1966
- Locality
- Llanuwchllyn
- Community
- Llanuwchllyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85828, -3.67452
- Cadw reference
- 4678
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the entrance to the churchyard.
History
Early C18 lychgate, dated 1725, with contemporary or near-contemporary churchyard walls apparently defining the earlier churchyard boundary; C19 railings and gates.
Exterior
Simple vernacular gabled lychgate of slatestone rubble construction with renewed slate roof and slated verges. Steeply-pitched gables with pointed-arched openings to front and rear having rough-dressed voussoirs. Original roof structure with chamfered oak purlins and plain rafters. Simple mid-Victorian iron half-gates to the front, with spear-headed railings and scrolled ends. The inner R wall has a long quoin incised with the date 1725 and the initials: 'LL T SD'.
The walls are of rubble and act as revetments to the churchyard. They stand to an avarage height of 1.20m and slope up slightly to either side of the lychgate. The walls define the roughly oval shape of the churchyard. Slatestone copings with surmounting plain C19 railings.
Reason for designation
Listed as a vernacular early C18 dated lychgate with associated churchyard walls, having group value with the parish church of St Deiniol.
Nearby in the register
- EnlliDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St DeiniolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trem WawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Church StDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.