Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to Church of St David
Llanddew, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 25 January 2005
- Locality
- Llanddew
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Llanddew
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.96708, -3.37662
- Cadw reference
- 83494
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the churchyard just W of the crossroads in the centre of the village.
History
Lychgate of 1888, built by the Rev. John Lane Davies as part of the restoration of the church, begun in 1883. The lychgate was said to be a memorial to the Golden Jubilee of 1887.
Exterior
Lychgate of oak with stone tiles to gabled roof, set on low rock-faced rubble side walls with chamfered coping and plinth. Ornate pierced cusped bargeboards, the gables carried on arch-braces from main posts, which also have concave-curved braces downward to ends of the low supporting walls. Walls have small spur on inside carrying an inner post. Scissor-rafter roof, sides have 4 panels, two upper ones open, the lower ones infilled.
Renewed timber gates with iron inserts in open upper panels.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the parish church.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone call-box in Llanddew (01874 622280)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing wallsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old VicarageWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Village pumpNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.