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
18047
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/05/1996
Date of Amendment
06/08/2002
Name of Property
Churchyard wall, including pound & lych gate, at St Cynog's church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Hirwaun
Town
Locality
Penderyn
Easting
294510
Northing
208503
Street Side
Location
Surrounding the church of St Cynog.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
In its present form the wall is shown on the 1840 Tithe map, including the pound, while the lych gate was built in the late C19, probably following the rebuilding the church in 1895-6.
Exterior
A rubble-stone wall approximately 1.5m high around the roughly oval churchyard. To the SE side is a recessed lych gate of coursed rock-faced stone and slate roof with scalloped and fretted barge boards. It has double wooden gates. On the NE side is an iron kissing gate, and further N are square rock-faced gate piers with domed caps to a single wide iron gate. On the S side are 2 infilled former gateways. The wall continues as a revetment to the SW side of the churchyard, where it is integral with a circular pound with modern gate.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a boundary wall forming an important component of the historic site and incorporating an unusual circular pound. It is part of a strong visual group including the church, The Rectory, and a well-preserved signpost beside the lych gate.
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