Churchyard wall, gates and war memorial at Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1999. Church.
Churchyard wall, gates and war memorial at Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-finial-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1999
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Churchyard wall, gates and war memorial at Church of St Michael, Myddfai, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire
- OS grid reference
- SN 772 301
- Coordinates
- 51.9558, -3.78812
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard wall, gates, and war memorial at the Church of St Michael date from the 19th century. The wall is primarily made of plain rubble stone and serves as a retaining wall. There are three earlier pedestrian gates located at the northeast, northwest, and south entries to the churchyard. The northeast and northwest entries feature gatepiers that are built against the rubble walling, while the south gatepiers are shorter and set at the top of a broad flight of stone steps, integrated into the rubble walling. The gatepiers have plain single block plinths, flat cornices, and pyramid caps.
Each entry has paired iron gates that include dog-bars, spearhead finials, mid rails, and a top rail that ramps down, with lattice bars along each outer edge. To the right of the south gate, there is a war memorial that features a Gothic marble plaque set within a column-shafted surround, recessed in a sandstone frame topped with a pediment. The pediment is adorned with crossed swords.
Local climate
Churchyard wall, gates and war memorial at Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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