Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25472
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/06/2001
Date of Amendment
11/06/2001
Name of Property
Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
St. Clears
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
St Clears
Easting
228060
Northing
215719
Street Side
E
Location
Situated at the church entrance, S of Cross House Stores, opposite the Town Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Miscellaneous
Period
History
Lychgate, 1911 by George M. Hammer and Co., Bermondsey. Erected to the memory of William Phillips (d 1870), by Eliza Phillips of the Kieffe.
Exterior
Timber lychgate on dwarf stone walls, gabled with slate roof, red tile ridges and Celtic cross finials. Six pairs of squared timber uprights rising from low, rock-faced coursed stone side walls with square end piers. Simple collar-rafter roof, but with elaborate carved Gothic work to front gable, brattished tie-beam with open ogee cusped arcade with 3 quatrefoils above, and ornately cusped matching bargeboard. The tie beam is inscribed "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord". Paired timber gates. Simpler rear truss, tie-beam, collar, queen struts and diagonal struts.
The rubble stone wall to left of lychgate on the street, has projecting 3-sided stone, fragment of an ancient stone cross, with modern, rendered cross set above.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good early C20 lychgate with group value in this closely built-up street.
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