Lychgate and Churchyard Walls, including Sundial Base, at St Dyfnog's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1999. Lychgate, churchyard walls, sundial. 1 related planning application.
Lychgate and Churchyard Walls, including Sundial Base, at St Dyfnog's Church
- WRENN ID
- dusted-window-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1999
- Type
- Lychgate, churchyard walls, sundial
- Address
- Lychgate and Churchyard Walls, including Sundial Base, at St Dyfnog's Church, Llanrhaeadr, Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch, LL16 4NL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 081 633
- Coordinates
- 53.15977, -3.37459
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate and churchyard walls at St Dyfnog's Church are a large timber-framed structure built in the Perpendicular style. The lychgate features supporting flank walls made of quarry-dressed limestone, topped with a slated timber-framed superstructure. This superstructure is supported by two moulded, arched-braced collar trusses that rise from ground level, with their lower sections partly embedded in the flank walls. The trusses have quatrefoil and trefoil cusping above their collars. The roof has deep verges supported by intermediate braced collar trusses with crenellated capitals at the springing, along with curved bracing at the top and bottom and cusped windbraces between the purlins. The bargeboards are cusped and feature ogee tracery. The lychgate also includes simple oak-panelled half-gates with open upper sections and curved ends.
The churchyard walls, which adjoin the lychgate, enclose the churchyard on the north and east sides. These walls are constructed of limestone rubble with triangular coping stones and reach a maximum height of 1.8 meters at the northwest corner. Here, the wall slopes slightly upwards and ends with a plain 19th-century iron gate at the junction with the almshouse forecourt wall. In the center of the eastern stretch, there is another plain 19th-century iron gate. At the southeast corner of the churchyard, the wall returns westward in two near-parallel sections that flank a stream bordering the churchyard on the west side, which is directed under the road via a culvert. The stretch of the churchyard wall drops down after about 10 meters to form a revetment, while the opposite stretch curves around before ending after approximately 6 meters.
The sundial base consists of a sandstone plinth topped with a two-stage sandstone finial, standing about 0.6 meters high. The lower section has chamfered sides, while the upper section is cylindrical. At the top, there is an abacus with chamfered corners that bears attachments for a presumed former sundial and features the weathered initials 'J.J'.
Local climate
Lychgate and Churchyard Walls, including Sundial Base, at St Dyfnog's Church 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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