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
18661
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Lych Gate to Church of St Michael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Abergele
Easting
294530
Northing
377603
Street Side
N
Location
Church Street leads off Market Street at the centre of the town. The lychgate is at the entrance to the churchyard at the end of the road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The lychgate was erected in 1887 at the same time as the church porch in commemoration of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.
Exterior
Built with timber framing, with a slate roof. Framed side panels with curved braces to ground sills, and Gothic tracery set in the frame panels. One centre and two outer king-post truss with curved struts. The roof, which descends low each side, has elaborately carved bargeboards, terminal crosses and an oak carved figure of St Michael and the Dragon in an aedicule, mounted on a bracket at the entrance front. Inscribed on the outer tie beam HTR/ QUEEN'S 1887 JUBILEE. A centrally placed pair of gates has open trefoil panelwork, and iron spiked crestings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an elaborate and well proportioned lychgate, of group value with the grade II* church.
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