Churhyard Walls to N and S of St Machreth's Church including Jones and Vaughan Family Monuments is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. House.

Churhyard Walls to N and S of St Machreth's Church including Jones and Vaughan Family Monuments

WRENN ID
rough-spandrel-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 May 1995
Type
House
Address
Churhyard Walls to N and S of St Machreth's Church including Jones and Vaughan Family Monuments, Llanfachreth, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 754 224
Coordinates
52.78553, -3.84864
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The churchyard walls surrounding St Machreth's Church are low rubble structures that form an irregular semi-circle from the north to the south, dating from the 19th century and earlier. The wall starts at the back of a rubble cottage located just north of the east end of the church. It continues in an arc to connect with the lychgate south of the tower and extends for an additional 40 meters, ending about 12 meters east of the church's east end. This last section acts as a retaining wall, with only a small part of the parapet visible above ground near the lychgate. The large boulder foundations suggest that this part predates the early 19th-century rebuilding of the church. There is an entrance on the northwest with a 20th-century boarded gate; from this point to the lychgate, the wall slopes down and is topped with slate slabs.

The churchyard remains largely unchanged and features numerous 18th and 19th-century gravestones and chest tombs arranged in their original haphazard layout. Among these, notable features include the mid-19th-century enclosure for the Jones family of Hengwrt to the west, which is surrounded by Gothic cast iron railings, and a large raised slate sarcophagus for Sir Robert Williames Vaughan and his family to the northwest, dating from 1843 to 1858.

Local climate

Churhyard Walls to N and S of St Machreth's Church including Jones and Vaughan Family Monuments sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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