Lych-gate and churchyard wall at the Church of St Twrog is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1999. A Medieval Lych-gate. 1 related planning application.
Lych-gate and churchyard wall at the Church of St Twrog
- WRENN ID
- lunar-spire-harvest
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1999
- Type
- Lych-gate
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Lych-gate and churchyard wall at the Church of St Twrog, Llandwrog, LL54 5SY
- OS grid reference
- SH 450 560
- Coordinates
- 53.07935, -4.31409
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lych-gate and churchyard wall at the Church of St Twrog are notable features from the 19th century. The lych-gate is constructed of rock-faced rubblestone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. It is a tall, cross-gabled structure with stepped coping on the gables. The front gable features an elaborate iron cross at the apex, while smaller stone crosses adorn the end gables. Both the front and rear gables have high pointed hollow-chamfered arches beneath hoodmoulds with carved label-stops and are buttressed below. The front arch is fitted with decorated iron gates, and there is a mock gun-loop above. The corners of the main structure have further stepped buttressing, topped with large head-stops from which cast-iron downpipes descend along the sides of the buttresses.
The churchyard wall is made of irregularly coursed rubblestone, with stone-on-edge coping on the earlier sections, primarily located to the north-east and south-west. The wall has been rebuilt in a similar style to that of the lych-gate where it connects to this structure.
Inside the lych-gate, there are foliated corbels that serve as supports for timber and plaster rib vaulting, which has significantly decayed by the time of the survey.
Local climate
Lych-gate and churchyard wall at the Church of St Twrog sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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