Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25617
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/08/2001
Date of Amendment
06/08/2001
Name of Property
Churchyard gates to Llanboidy churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanboidy
Town
Whitland
Locality
Llanboidy
Easting
221608
Northing
223225
Street Side
Location
Situated at W entry to Llanboidy churchyard in Llanboidy village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C19 iron gates and pierced cast-iron gatepiers to Llanboidy churchyard. The gates are of unusual elaboration for a churchyard, and may have been moved here from a country house, perhaps Maesgwynne.
Exterior
Two open-work cast-iron gatepiers and double iron gates. Piers have plinth with 4 scrolls then shafts with pattern of opposed half-circles intersected by mirrored serpentine curve and top Celtic cross pattern formed of fleur-de-lys within circle. Corniced caps with concave pyramid stands to ball finials.
Twin gates have top-rails ramped down, double middle rail and 2 double bottom rails. Dog-bars to lower half, lotus finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an ornate example of Victorian ironwork.
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