Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate and Flanking Walls
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95153, -3.39274
- Cadw reference
- 6997
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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To NW of Cathedral and Almonry.
History
1900. On interior S wall of the lychgate is a stone memorial tablet to Joseph Richard Cobb and dated 1900
"To the glory of God, lived 1821-1897, Joseph Richard Cobb, to whose memory this gate is erected by his wife and children 1900".
Exterior
Lychgate contructed from two parallel walls of stone with gabled timber superstructure (arcaded to sides) with cusped bargeboards and with stone slate roof on NE to SW axis. Two sets of iron gates. Lychgate linked to the Almonry (S) by a low stone wall with coping; railings with spear-headed finials with, at intervals, square standards with urn finials. Short stretch of similar wall to N.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with the Cathedral, Almonry, and Tithebarn.
Nearby in the register
- Priory Walls, including North, West and Postern GatewaysReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The AlmonryHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- No.5 St John's TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.6 St John's TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.