Lychgate at St Paul's Chruch is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 June 1966. Lychgate.
Lychgate at St Paul's Chruch
- WRENN ID
- fading-plaster-quill
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1966
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at St Paul's Chruch, Bryn-Coed-Ifor, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 796 207
- Coordinates
- 52.77102, -3.78508
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate at St Paul's Church is a Grade II* listed structure, built with rubble and topped by a pyramidal slate roof that slightly feathers out towards the eaves. The lychgate is essentially square, featuring concave sides that extend to create the appearance of diagonal buttresses, which taper slightly—a hallmark of the architect Wilson's design. Each face has decorative lead guttering with cable moulding and stylised foliate bosses in shallow relief, along with exposed beam ends below.
On the entrance sides, set back and supported by triangular corbels, are heavy oak double lintels with oak infill blocks in between. These concave lintels complement the convex sweep of the inner sides. There are Welsh and English biblical inscriptions on the road-facing and church-facing sides, respectively, and three plain rectangular lights on the flanking sides. Atop the roof is a lead figure of an angel, and there are later plain oak gates added to the road front in 1936.
Inside, the lychgate features a plastered dome supported by a round pegged oak frame, with flat applied plaster decoration of crosses and foliage. An intricately designed and carved oak boss displays the date 1906, and there are segmental oak benches along the sides.
Local climate
Lychgate at St Paul's Chruch 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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