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
14675
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/07/1994  
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994  
Name of Property
Lychgate and Boundary Wall to St John's Churchyard  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Colwyn Bay  
Town
 
Locality
Colwyn Bay  
Easting
284611  
Northing
379165  
Street Side
S  
Location
The wall bounds the church yard to Conway Road, returning up Pwllycrochan Avenue, with the lychgate at the angle of the 2 lengths of wall.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
The boundary walls and gates were erected on the church site in 1881, although the church itself was not completed until 1888. The lychgate was probably designed by the architect of the church, Robert Curwen of London and Liverpool, but the boundary walls are of a type common in this part of Colwyn Bay.  

Exterior
Rough random rubble to boundary walls, polygonal black granite to lychgate, with freestone dressings, including the raking gabled roof. Deep moulded archway with inscribed band and plain chamfered responds in either side of the gabled lychgate, clasped by buttresses terminating in pinnacles with traceried arcaded bands. Low chamfered timber gates, with openwork panels, with cross braced timber in the upper panels, and wrought iron below. Boundary walls have rustic embattled parapets,raised at intervals over lancet-like recesses. The wall terminates at each end of the church yard in polygonal turretted gate piers.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Part of a group with the church of Saint John, the lychgate is an excellent and robustly detailed example of its type.  

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