Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
22/12/2003
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Location
On the E side of the churchyard of the Church of St Matthew.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Lychgate to churchyard of Dyffryn church built 1871 for Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn. Lychgate either of that date or contemporary with the memorial to Howel Gwyn died 1888 which faces it down churchyard path.
Exterior
Lychgate, timber on two low rubble and ashlar walls, with gabled bargeboarded roof of fishscale slates with limestone ridge tiles. Timber appears to be pine, 2 bays each side with cusped heads to openings, and 3 cambered tie-beams with king-posts up to an axial timber under collars of rafter couples. Arch braces from king-posts and under tie-beams.
Reason for designation
Included as a typical later C19 timber lychgate, of group value with the church and monument in a Victorian estate-church ensemble.
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