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
25617
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/08/2001
Date of Amendment
06/08/2001
Name of Property
Churchyard gates to Llanboidy churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanboidy
Town
Whitland
Locality
Llanboidy
Easting
221608
Northing
223225
Street Side
Location
Situated at W entry to Llanboidy churchyard in Llanboidy village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C19 iron gates and pierced cast-iron gatepiers to Llanboidy churchyard. The gates are of unusual elaboration for a churchyard, and may have been moved here from a country house, perhaps Maesgwynne.
Exterior
Two open-work cast-iron gatepiers and double iron gates. Piers have plinth with 4 scrolls then shafts with pattern of opposed half-circles intersected by mirrored serpentine curve and top Celtic cross pattern formed of fleur-de-lys within circle. Corniced caps with concave pyramid stands to ball finials.
Twin gates have top-rails ramped down, double middle rail and 2 double bottom rails. Dog-bars to lower half, lotus finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an ornate example of Victorian ironwork.
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