Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21217
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/01/1999
Date of Amendment
25/01/1999
Name of Property
Lychgate at the Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Efenechtyd
Town
Locality
Efenechtyd
Easting
311135
Northing
355764
Street Side
Location
Prominently-located on a bend in the main street in the village centre, at the SW end of the rubble-walled churchyard and adjoining the Rectory at its SE corner.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Lychgate, probably of C18 date, built to serve the parish church. A series of incorporated sandstone corbels represent reuse of earlier material, possibly medieval.
Exterior
Limestone rubble construction with pitched slate roof and sandstone ridges; oversailing eaves and deep verges with expressed purlin ends. The roof is carried on rounded sandstone corbels, two to each face of the supporting gable walls. Late C19 panelled oak half-gates to the front (facing SW), with simple pierced tracery to the upper section. Towards the NE end are contemporary narrow rubble benches to the inner walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a lychgate of probable C18 date, in a prominent location within the village.
Group value with the Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels.
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