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
24422
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/11/2000
Date of Amendment
27/11/2000
Name of Property
Lychgate at Church of St Mary
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Cylch-y-Garn
Town
Locality
Llanfairynghornwy
Easting
232689
Northing
390844
Street Side
Location
Reached by a trackway and at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, set back from the NW side of the road at the SE end of the village of Llanfairynghornwy.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The lychgate is similar in style and construction to many on the island, a characteristic local type presumed to be C18 or C19.
Exterior
Built of rubble masonry with slate roof capping. Square pillars stepped up over huge stone lintel, stone cross at apex; now hung with modern timber gate. To the L (E) side of the gate way are stone steps up to a stone stile, now blocked with a slate slab.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-detailed rural lychgate of characteristic local type which forms a group with the adjacent Church of St Mary.
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