Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to the Church of St Michael
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, designated on 17 June 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 June 1966
- Locality
- Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
- Community
- Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66114, -3.96552
- Cadw reference
- 4748
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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The parish church stands on the valley floor, within a sub-oval banked and walled churchyard. The lychgate is set in the wall on the E quadrant of the wall.
History
Although the building lacks dateable features, it was probably built in the C17-C18, inserted into the earlier sub-oval banked earthwork, which was later strengthened by the building of the graveyard wall.
Exterior
The small lychgate is built of local stone, with a slate roof and roll ridge tiles. Segmental-headed arches both outside and in, flush with the inner and outer gables, each coped with field stones. Behind each arch, a chamfered cambered beam.
Interior
The stonework of the interior is whitewashed, and has narrow stone benches each side. The roof has open rafters supported by a single tier of heavy purlins and a ridge set diagonally. The outer part of the cobbled floor is a cattle grid, now covered with slate flags.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of the vernacular type of lychgate characteristic of small rural churchyards in west Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyard monument at the Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cottage E of the Church of St MichaelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard wall at the Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.