Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 June 2001. A Medieval Gateway.
Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gable-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2001
- Type
- Gateway
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Timber lychgate on dwarf stone walls, gabled with slate roof, red tile ridges and Celtic cross finials. Six pairs of squared timber uprights rising from low, rock-faced coursed stone side walls with square end piers. Simple collar-rafter roof, but with elaborate carved Gothic work to front gable, brattished tie-beam with open ogee cusped arcade with 3 quatrefoils above, and ornately cusped matching bargeboard. The tie beam is inscribed "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord". Paired timber gates. Simpler rear truss, tie-beam, collar, queen struts and diagonal struts. The rubble stone wall to left of lychgate on the street, has projecting 3-sided stone, fragment of an ancient stone cross, with modern, rendered cross set above.
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