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
22351
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
15/09/1999
Name of Property
Lychgate to the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Clynnog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Clynnog-fawr
Easting
241490
Northing
349695
Street Side
NW
Location
The lychgate opens directly off the main road at the centre of the village, and leads into the W corner of the churchyard opposite the E end of the chancel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in the late medieval period as the main entrance to the churchyard.
Exterior
Built of granite with a pitched slate roof. Double gate entry from the road to a wide interior paved with pebbles, and slate and slopes down to the wide opening to the churchyard. Both openings are covered by a large single slab of stone of irregular shape, on further corbel slabs, the inner opening having a square opening to admit more light set asymmetrically above the lintel. The entry against the road appears to have been originally arched.
Interior
The roof is carried on re-used oak purlins and a ridge and has open rafters with plaster between each. The passage has one shallow recessed seat each side immediately behind the outer gates, perhaps for mendicant pilgrims.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a late medieval lychgate to a churchyard, and of group value with the Grade I Church of St Beuno and other structures at the centre of Clynnog-fawr.
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