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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