Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lych gate and attached walls, Abbey Cwmhir churchyard
Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abey Cwmhir, Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, designated on 4 December 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 4 December 1985
- Locality
- Abey Cwmhir
- Community
- Abbey Cwmhir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33138, -3.38954
- Cadw reference
- 83100
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Forming the S side of the churchyard.
History
The lych gate is dated 1900. The attached walls are probably contemporary with the building of the church in 1866 by J.W. Poundley and D. Walker.
Exterior
The lych gate has dwarf rock-faced walls with freestone coping. The open timber-framed superstructure has a gabled slate roof on cambered, castellated tie beams. The lych gate was built over earlier freestone gate piers, which have wooden gates. On the churchyard side the stone walls have inscription tablets, of which the tablet on the E side records the date and that the lych gate was the gift of the people of Abbey Cwmhir in memory of Miss Mary Philips, benefactor of the church.
Attached dwarf walls are of rock-faced stone with freestone copings, and have intermediate and terminal piers, each bay infilled with iron railings incorporating round panels with X-shaped bars. There are 2 bays on the W side and 3 bays on the E side, with a single-bay return to the N to a footbridge.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed lych gate and railings, for group value with the church, and for its contribution to the historic character of the village.
Nearby in the register
- Footbridge & attached walls and gateway on the SE side of Abbey Cwmhir churchyardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cross CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Happy Union InnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.