Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 December 2003
- Locality
- Dyffryn
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68316, -3.82601
- Cadw reference
- 82321
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
On the E side of the churchyard of the Church of St Matthew.
History
Lychgate to churchyard of Dyffryn church built 1871 for Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn. Lychgate either of that date or contemporary with the memorial to Howel Gwyn died 1888 which faces it down churchyard path.
Exterior
Lychgate, timber on two low rubble and ashlar walls, with gabled bargeboarded roof of fishscale slates with limestone ridge tiles. Timber appears to be pine, 2 bays each side with cusped heads to openings, and 3 cambered tie-beams with king-posts up to an axial timber under collars of rafter couples. Arch braces from king-posts and under tie-beams.
Reason for designation
Included as a typical later C19 timber lychgate, of group value with the church and monument in a Victorian estate-church ensemble.
Nearby in the register
- Howel Gwyn memorial in churchyard of Church of St MatthewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MatthewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Swiss GablesDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Grange, former stables and coach house to Dyffryn HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.