Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22886
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/2000
Date of Amendment
03/03/2000
Name of Property
St Cenydd's Lychgate
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
Town
Swansea
Locality
Llangennith village
Easting
242865
Northing
191454
Street Side
Location
At the north entrance to St Cenydd's churchyard, Llangennith
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
St Cenydd's lychgate was donated to the church in 1903, and contains later gate-panel carvings by a local craftsman, W H Melling.
Exterior
Timber-framed lychgate to the north west of the churchyard, with double timber gates.
The structure stands on four corner-posts with large curved braces to the tie-beams. Large verge overhang carried on curved brackets and large, generously scalloped bargeboards to front and rear. Low pitched slated roof with tile ridge. Quatrefoil-pierced fascias above tie-beams front and rear. Three open lights each side with gothic tracery and cinquefoil scalloping. Rendered panels below the side lights, a shallow seat each side, stone plinths.
The gates, added later, have posts carved with animals and panels carved with scenes of the lives of St Cenydd and St David. Stone paving from gates to road.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as the only known lychgate at a Gower churchyard, picturesquely designed and of group value with St Cenydd's chuch.
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