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
21547
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
30/03/1999
Name of Property
Lychgate to the Church of St Cynhaearn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolbenmaen
Town
Dolbenmaen
Locality
Ystumllyn
Easting
252542
Northing
338768
Street Side
Location
St Cynhaearn stands isolated approximately 900m S of Pentrefelin village. The lychgate stands in front of the churchyard wall and provides the entrance to the rectangular churchyard from the SW.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The lychgate was probably erected in the C18 to provide shelter at the entrance to the graveyard.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework flushed with mortar, with an old irregular sized slate roof. A gated stile stands at the side of the stone-built storeroom added on its W side. Openings on each face of the lychgate have slate lintels, and the gable walls are returned to enclose the ends of stone benches internally each side. Pine roof, with slates fully torched, and single tier of purlins. Cast iron gate. The building is extended to the SW by a churchyard store with a lower pitched old slate roof.
Interior
Fixed to the internal walls of the lychgate are C18 slate headstones, including WK 1728; Jane Daniel 1761; Thomas Rowland, 1757 and Jane Jones, 1776.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple C18 lychgate having a vernacular character, of group value with the Church of St Cynhaearn.
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