22351

 

II  

Designated  

29/05/1968  

15/09/1999  

Lychgate to the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno  

 

Gwynedd  

Clynnog  

Caernarfon  

Clynnog-fawr  

241490  

349695  

NW  

The lychgate opens directly off the main road at the centre of the village, and leads into the W corner of the churchyard opposite the E end of the chancel.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Built in the late medieval period as the main entrance to the churchyard.  

Built of granite with a pitched slate roof. Double gate entry from the road to a wide interior paved with pebbles, and slate and slopes down to the wide opening to the churchyard. Both openings are covered by a large single slab of stone of irregular shape, on further corbel slabs, the inner opening having a square opening to admit more light set asymmetrically above the lintel. The entry against the road appears to have been originally arched.  

The roof is carried on re-used oak purlins and a ridge and has open rafters with plaster between each. The passage has one shallow recessed seat each side immediately behind the outer gates, perhaps for mendicant pilgrims.  

Included as a good example of a late medieval lychgate to a churchyard, and of group value with the Grade I Church of St Beuno and other structures at the centre of Clynnog-fawr.