Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24737
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Lych-gate to the church of St John
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Raglan
Town
Usk
Locality
Llandenny
Easting
341506
Northing
203905
Street Side
Location
Situated at the entrance to Llandenny churchyard in Llandenny village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Lychgate of uncertain date, possibly late medieval or C16, reconstructed as part of the church restoration by G.E.Halliday of Cardiff in 1900, as a memorial to the 2nd Lord Raglan.
Exterior
Lych-gate, two dressed stone walls with rough coping and finials supporting narrow stone slate roof on Tudor-arched ovolo-moulded bressumers of 1900. Wooden gates within. On W end a re-used unfinished C16 dripstone. Said to incorporate medieval worked stone with masons marks similar to those at Raglan Castle. Pink granite tablet records restoration in memory of the 2nd Lord Raglan.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the Church of St. John, Llandenny.
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