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
23991
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/2000
Date of Amendment
19/09/2000
Name of Property
Lychgate to Church of St Cynwyl
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cynwyl Elfed
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Cynwyl Elfed
Easting
237352
Northing
227506
Street Side
Location
Situated at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Cynwyl, near the centre of Cynwyl Elfed village NE of Pont Cynwyl.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C19 timber lychgate by J P Seddon as part of the restoration of 1876-7.
Exterior
Lychgate, painted oak with slate hipped roof. Two square posts with arch-braces on 4 sides: those E and W carry cross-beams with moulded ends, longer outer ones carry roof hip, and inner ones carry roof ridge. Posts above cross-beams up to ridge. Diagonal boarding under slates, shaped rafter ends. Two iron gates with spearhead rails and dog-bars. Crested clay ridge tiles.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual piece of High Victorian timber design by a leading Victorian architect, and as part of a group with the church.
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