Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard walls, including lychgate and fold, at Llanddarog church
Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 12 December 2003
- Locality
- Llanddarog
- Community
- Llanddarog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82762, -4.17387
- Cadw reference
- 82274
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
In the centre of the village on the N side of the B4310.
History
The wall incorporates material from the older church on the site but the entrances date from the rebuilding of the church in 1860 and are shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey (which does not show the fold).
Exterior
The churchyard wall is approximately round in plan, of rubble stone up to 2m high, with cock-and-hen coping. Towards the S end of the churchyard it acts as a retaining wall. The main entrance is the lychgate on the W side. It is of rubble stone with dressed quoins, an elliptical arch of roughcast over brick, and ivy-clad gabled slate roof. It has double wrought-iron gates. Similar gates are to the NW entrance. The fold at the S end is circular with a full-height opening in the S side. Set into the wall is a Victorian letter box, cast by WT Allen & Co of London, presented by the Post Office in 1987.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed lychgate and for group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- The White HartCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of St TwrogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former cart house and stable at Llethr LlestriNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former cow house at Llethr LlestriNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.