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
4748
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1966
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Lychgate to the Church of St Michael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Town
Locality
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Easting
267163
Northing
308860
Street Side
Location
The parish church stands on the valley floor, within a sub-oval banked and walled churchyard. The lychgate is set in the wall on the E quadrant of the wall.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Although the building lacks dateable features, it was probably built in the C17-C18, inserted into the earlier sub-oval banked earthwork, which was later strengthened by the building of the graveyard wall.
Exterior
The small lychgate is built of local stone, with a slate roof and roll ridge tiles. Segmental-headed arches both outside and in, flush with the inner and outer gables, each coped with field stones. Behind each arch, a chamfered cambered beam.
Interior
The stonework of the interior is whitewashed, and has narrow stone benches each side. The roof has open rafters supported by a single tier of heavy purlins and a ridge set diagonally. The outer part of the cobbled floor is a cattle grid, now covered with slate flags.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of the vernacular type of lychgate characteristic of small rural churchyards in west Wales.
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