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
21876
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1999
Date of Amendment
17/06/1999
Name of Property
Lychgate and Churchyard Walls at Church of St Mary
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Cyffylliog
Town
Locality
Cyffylliog
Easting
305905
Northing
357803
Street Side
Location
Defining the extent of the churchyard, the lychgate to the S of the church.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The churchyard walls are probably C18 or C19 in their present form, though they define the extent of what appears to have been a Celtic Llan site. The lychgate is perhaps C18 in origin, though re-roofed in the late C19 or early C20 and repaired again in recent years.
Exterior
The churchyard wall is of boulder rubble construction with irregular copings of boulders set on end, and stands to a maximum height of 1.5m. The wall curves around in a convex arc to the NW following the curve of the lane and defining the churchyard. At the latter's NW corner the wall returns to terminate with a pair of plain C20 iron gates. From this point the churchyard boundary continues eastwards as a revetment wall which sweeps around to the SE to join the wall proper at the hearse-house.
Within the road-fronting stretch of wall, approximately 6m W of the hearse-house, is placed the lychgate. This is a gabled rubble structure with open E and W sides; slated roof, the front (W) pitch renewed. The W side has an early C20 chamfered pine wall-plate with simple relief-carved cross to the centre; within are 2 modern steps down to a slate-flagged floor. A pair of C19 plain wooden slatted half-gates is affixed to the centre.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a good lychgate with associated churchyard walls, and as an important historical element in the setting of the church.
Group value with the Church of St Mary and the Hearse-house.
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