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
16231
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1995
Date of Amendment
02/08/1995
Name of Property
Lychgate to Parish church of St Cynwyl
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cynwyl Gaeo
Town
Locality
Caeo
Easting
267506
Northing
239876
Street Side
Location
Located some 50m S of parish church
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Erected 1932 in memory of members of the Johnes family of Dolaucothi. The church of St Cynwyl is predominantly C15 and the lychgate is appropriately in the Perpendicular style.
Exterior
Gabled front of squared rock-faced grey sandstone, ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched stone-tiled roof, wooden soffits, projecting bracketed bargeboards with carved consoles. Wide 4-centred entry, ashlar head with drip. Low paired wooden panelled gates with strap hinges, the upper panels open with spiral twist iron bars. Square Perpendicular two-light window above, label, trefoiled lights, latticed iron panes. Carved gablet above window rising to a crucifix. Rear elevation as front, but without gates.
Pair of earlier square ashlar gate-piers in front of lychgate, moulded stone copings rising to ball finials. Short wide flight of cemented steps in front.
Interior
Collarbeam roof, flagstone floor, stone benches. Inscribed stone memorial tablets to left and right.
Reason for designation
Well designed lychgate of 1932. Group value with parish church.
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