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
6997
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
Lychgate and Flanking Walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304381
Northing
229032
Street Side
E
Location
To NW of Cathedral and Almonry.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1900. On interior S wall of the lychgate is a stone memorial tablet to Joseph Richard Cobb and dated 1900
"To the glory of God, lived 1821-1897, Joseph Richard Cobb, to whose memory this gate is erected by his wife and children 1900".
Exterior
Lychgate contructed from two parallel walls of stone with gabled timber superstructure (arcaded to sides) with cusped bargeboards and with stone slate roof on NE to SW axis. Two sets of iron gates. Lychgate linked to the Almonry (S) by a low stone wall with coping; railings with spear-headed finials with, at intervals, square standards with urn finials. Short stretch of similar wall to N.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with the Cathedral, Almonry, and Tithebarn.
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