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
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 June 2001
Type
Gateway
Period
Medieval
Address
Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N, St Clears, Carmarthen, St. Clears
OS grid reference
SN 280 157
Coordinates
51.81359, -4.49576
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The lychgate to the Parish Church is a timber structure built on low stone walls, featuring a gabled slate roof with red tile ridges and Celtic cross finials. It has six pairs of squared timber uprights that rise from rock-faced coursed stone side walls, which include square end piers. The roof is supported by a simple collar-rafter design, but the front gable showcases elaborate carved Gothic work. This includes a brattished tie-beam with an open ogee cusped arcade featuring three quatrefoils above, and an ornately cusped matching bargeboard. The tie beam is inscribed with the words "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." The lychgate also has paired timber gates and a simpler rear truss with a tie-beam, collar, queen struts, and diagonal struts. To the left of the lychgate, along the street, there is a rubble stone wall that features a projecting three-sided stone, which is a fragment of an ancient stone cross, with a modern rendered cross set above it.

Local climate

Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to N sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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