Churchyard boundary walls, including East Lychgate, at Church of St Mwrog is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 2005. Lychgate, boundary wall.
Churchyard boundary walls, including East Lychgate, at Church of St Mwrog
- WRENN ID
- scarred-baluster-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 December 2005
- Type
- Lychgate, boundary wall
- Address
- Churchyard boundary walls, including East Lychgate, at Church of St Mwrog, Llanfwrog, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 113 578
- Coordinates
- 53.11029, -3.32589
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard boundary walls, including the East lychgate, at the Church of St Mwrog are constructed of large blocks of random stone, forming a high wall to the south that faces the road. The coping is made of intermittent random stones. On the west and north sides, there is a high battered retaining wall of random stone, supported by raked buttresses. The top of the wall on the west side is partly coped in concrete and steps down towards the north. Narrow iron railings surmount the west and north walls. The eastern boundary is mainly marked by a building that is not associated with the church.
The East lychgate is half-timbered, resting on a high stone plinth and covered by a slate roof. It features gabled entrances, with the external east front accessed by steep stone steps. The entrance has a segmental arch, with the lintel supported by timber posts. This lintel may be a collar that is earlier and re-used from another structure; it has an inscription in Welsh. The gable includes a vertical strut and a finial, with timber boarding flanking the entrance. The west front is weather-boarded and features a wide entrance with a shallow segmental-arched head. The sides of the porch have a single band of open timber panels above a high plinth. Inside, there is a plain rafter roof. Attached to the east entrance is a cast iron gate, which has bands of circles beneath the top rail and lock rail, fleur-de-lis finials, and decorative dog-rails.
Local climate
Churchyard boundary walls, including East Lychgate, at Church of St Mwrog sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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