Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13707
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
Lychgate and attached wall descending to the Cathedral
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
315524
Northing
178070
Street Side
Location
The entrance to the Cathedral from The Cathedral Green.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dating probably from c1870. Built as part of the restoration of Llandaff Cathedral and designed by John Prichard. The wall is quite different in character and apparently more recent than the wall down to the east end of the Cathedral. John Speed in 1610 shows a stream running from St. Teilo's spring down both lines and no walls at all.
Exterior
Both built of pink Radyr and grey Forest of Dean sandstones. Lychgate with pointed arch and stepped hipped stone roof with cruciform finial, stone modillions, buttresses, oak double gates. Wall extends downhill from the lychgate as far as the Prebendal House, interrupted by a flight of steps to the Cathedral. Low wall with castellated ramped stone coping. Flight of steps to the cathedral flanked by Radyr stone piers.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a handsome lychgate designed by John Prichard and having group value with the Cathedral and all the listed buildings on The Cathedral Green.
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