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
82321
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/2003
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Dyffryn
Easting
273858
Northing
199846
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the churchyard of the Church of St Matthew.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Lychgate to churchyard of Dyffryn church built 1871 for Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn. Lychgate either of that date or contemporary with the memorial to Howel Gwyn died 1888 which faces it down churchyard path.
Exterior
Lychgate, timber on two low rubble and ashlar walls, with gabled bargeboarded roof of fishscale slates with limestone ridge tiles. Timber appears to be pine, 2 bays each side with cusped heads to openings, and 3 cambered tie-beams with king-posts up to an axial timber under collars of rafter couples. Arch braces from king-posts and under tie-beams.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a typical later C19 timber lychgate, of group value with the church and monument in a Victorian estate-church ensemble.
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