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
22886
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/03/2000  
Date of Amendment
03/03/2000  
Name of Property
St Cenydd's Lychgate  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton  
Town
Swansea  
Locality
Llangennith village  
Easting
242865  
Northing
191454  
Street Side
 
Location
At the north entrance to St Cenydd's churchyard, Llangennith  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
St Cenydd's lychgate was donated to the church in 1903, and contains later gate-panel carvings by a local craftsman, W H Melling.  

Exterior
Timber-framed lychgate to the north west of the churchyard, with double timber gates. The structure stands on four corner-posts with large curved braces to the tie-beams. Large verge overhang carried on curved brackets and large, generously scalloped bargeboards to front and rear. Low pitched slated roof with tile ridge. Quatrefoil-pierced fascias above tie-beams front and rear. Three open lights each side with gothic tracery and cinquefoil scalloping. Rendered panels below the side lights, a shallow seat each side, stone plinths. The gates, added later, have posts carved with animals and panels carved with scenes of the lives of St Cenydd and St David. Stone paving from gates to road.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as the only known lychgate at a Gower churchyard, picturesquely designed and of group value with St Cenydd's chuch.  

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