Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate at the Church of St Mary
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tal-y-llyn, 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
- Tal-y-llyn
- Community
- Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66681, -3.90801
- Cadw reference
- 4764
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 of St Mary stands at the S end of Tal-y-llyn lake, within a sub-rectangular churchyard, beside the main road from Minffordd to Aber. This lychgate is in the churchyard wall S of the church, at the foot of the slope of Mynydd Rugog.
History
The lychgate through the churchyard wall S of the church was built probably in the C18 to serve the parishioners in the Corris valley at times when the road through Minffordd was flooded.
Exterior
The simple stone lychgate has inner and outer gables mastering a slate roof with cavetto eaves. Near semi-circular arches, the inner arch with a backing arch of shaped timber, the equivalent on the outer arch has been replaced. Iron gates.
Interior
Open raftered roof on a single tier of purlins.
Reason for designation
Included as a lychgate of vernacular character, of group value with the grade II* Church of St Mary and its NW lychgate, and of historical interest as being a separate provision for the convenience of the outlying parishioners arriving by foot from over the mountain in the Corris valley.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate at the Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Beudy at RhiwogofAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Maes-y-pandyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.