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
83494
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/01/2005
Date of Amendment
25/01/2005
Name of Property
Lychgate to Church of St David
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanddew
Town
Brecon
Locality
Llanddew
Easting
305521
Northing
230740
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the churchyard just W of the crossroads in the centre of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Lychgate of 1888, built by the Rev. John Lane Davies as part of the restoration of the church, begun in 1883. The lychgate was said to be a memorial to the Golden Jubilee of 1887.
Exterior
Lychgate of oak with stone tiles to gabled roof, set on low rock-faced rubble side walls with chamfered coping and plinth. Ornate pierced cusped bargeboards, the gables carried on arch-braces from main posts, which also have concave-curved braces downward to ends of the low supporting walls. Walls have small spur on inside carrying an inner post. Scissor-rafter roof, sides have 4 panels, two upper ones open, the lower ones infilled.
Renewed timber gates with iron inserts in open upper panels.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the parish church.
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