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
83100
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
04/12/1985  
Date of Amendment
03/09/2004  
Name of Property
Lych gate and attached walls, Abbey Cwmhir churchyard  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Abbey Cwmhir  
Town
 
Locality
Abey Cwmhir  
Easting
305410  
Northing
271275  
Street Side
 
Location
Forming the S side of the churchyard.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
The lych gate is dated 1900. The attached walls are probably contemporary with the building of the church in 1866 by J.W. Poundley and D. Walker.  

Exterior
The lych gate has dwarf rock-faced walls with freestone coping. The open timber-framed superstructure has a gabled slate roof on cambered, castellated tie beams. The lych gate was built over earlier freestone gate piers, which have wooden gates. On the churchyard side the stone walls have inscription tablets, of which the tablet on the E side records the date and that the lych gate was the gift of the people of Abbey Cwmhir in memory of Miss Mary Philips, benefactor of the church. Attached dwarf walls are of rock-faced stone with freestone copings, and have intermediate and terminal piers, each bay infilled with iron railings incorporating round panels with X-shaped bars. There are 2 bays on the W side and 3 bays on the E side, with a single-bay return to the N to a footbridge.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed lych gate and railings, for group value with the church, and for its contribution to the historic character of the village.  

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