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
5250
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/11/1992
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Lychgate at St Philips Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Barmouth
Locality
Caerdeon
Easting
265146
Northing
318139
Street Side
Location
The church is reached up a steep lane off the main road; the lychgate is at the entrance to the sloping churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Erected 1927 in memory of Catherine Jane Holland, widow of Samuel Holland, MP for Meirioneth (1870-1885); he purchased the Caerdeon estate in 1875 and is himself commemorated by the E window in the church.
St Philip's Caerdeon was built in 1862 for the Rev W E Jelf, an Oxford academic, to the designs of Rev J L Petit, the well-known architectural writer.
Exterior
Rubble construction with roughly carved voussoirs to round-arched openings at either end; thick, undressed slate roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter-ends. All in similar manner to the church. Seats within and commemorative plaque.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with St Philip's Church.
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