Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate and churchyard walls, Church of St Tecwyn
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandecwyn, Talsarnau, Gwynedd, designated on 30 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2004
- Locality
- Llandecwyn
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91830, -4.03570
- Cadw reference
- 83456
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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of a country lane, once the county road to Maentwrog, c1km W of the main village of Llandecwyn.
History
The present Church of St Tecwyn is almost wholly of 1879-80, but replaced an earlier building on the site. The churchyard walls and lychgate predate this rebuilding of the church. The walls are difficult to date, but the lychgate is probably C17 or C18
Exterior
Simple rubble (largely fieldstone) walls with rough copings bounding near circular churchyard, with lychgate towards SW corner. This is built of roughly coursed rubble, using characteristic long blocks. Coped gables and slate roof. Shouldered doorways in each elevation.
There is a monopitched bier house forming part of the churchyard wall with slab parapet abutting the SE corner of the churchyard. It has a wide opening onto the lane S of the site and evidence of a blocked opening into the churchyard.
Reason for designation
Listed as a lychgate and churchyard walls, with good vernacular qualities, and part of a group with the Church of Saint Tecwyn and Ty'n Llan.
Nearby in the register
- Ty'n LlanNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of St TecwynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lofted stable and cartshed at Plas LlandecwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas LlandecwynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.