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
25472
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
11/06/2001  
Date of Amendment
11/06/2001  
Name of Property
Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
St. Clears  
Town
Carmarthen  
Locality
St Clears  
Easting
228060  
Northing
215719  
Street Side
E  
Location
Situated at the church entrance, S of Cross House Stores, opposite the Town Hall.  

Description


Broad Class
Miscellaneous  
Period
 

History
Lychgate, 1911 by George M. Hammer and Co., Bermondsey. Erected to the memory of William Phillips (d 1870), by Eliza Phillips of the Kieffe.  

Exterior
Timber lychgate on dwarf stone walls, gabled with slate roof, red tile ridges and Celtic cross finials. Six pairs of squared timber uprights rising from low, rock-faced coursed stone side walls with square end piers. Simple collar-rafter roof, but with elaborate carved Gothic work to front gable, brattished tie-beam with open ogee cusped arcade with 3 quatrefoils above, and ornately cusped matching bargeboard. The tie beam is inscribed "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord". Paired timber gates. Simpler rear truss, tie-beam, collar, queen struts and diagonal struts. The rubble stone wall to left of lychgate on the street, has projecting 3-sided stone, fragment of an ancient stone cross, with modern, rendered cross set above.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a good early C20 lychgate with group value in this closely built-up street.  

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