Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
83456
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/12/2004  
Date of Amendment
30/12/2004  
Name of Property
Lychgate and churchyard walls, Church of St Tecwyn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Talsarnau  
Town
 
Locality
Llandecwyn  
Easting
263227  
Northing
337594  
Street Side
 
Location
At the end of a country lane, once the county road to Maentwrog, c1km W of the main village of Llandecwyn.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
The present Church of St Tecwyn is almost wholly of 1879-80, but replaced an earlier building on the site. The churchyard walls and lychgate predate this rebuilding of the church. The walls are difficult to date, but the lychgate is probably C17 or C18  

Exterior
Simple rubble (largely fieldstone) walls with rough copings bounding near circular churchyard, with lychgate towards SW corner. This is built of roughly coursed rubble, using characteristic long blocks. Coped gables and slate roof. Shouldered doorways in each elevation. There is a monopitched bier house forming part of the churchyard wall with slab parapet abutting the SE corner of the churchyard. It has a wide opening onto the lane S of the site and evidence of a blocked opening into the churchyard.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a lychgate and churchyard walls, with good vernacular qualities, and part of a group with the Church of Saint Tecwyn and Ty'n Llan.  

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