Churchyard wall, including pound & lych gate, at St Cynog's church is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 May 1996. Churchyard wall.
Churchyard wall, including pound & lych gate, at St Cynog's church
- WRENN ID
- outer-thatch-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1996
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Address
- Churchyard wall, including pound & lych gate, at St Cynog's church, Penderyn, Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SN 945 085
- Coordinates
- 51.76524, -3.53005
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard wall at St Cynog's church is constructed of rubble stone and stands approximately 1.5 meters high, enclosing the roughly oval churchyard. On the southeast side, there is a recessed lych gate made of coursed rock-faced stone, topped with a slate roof featuring scalloped and fretted barge boards. This lych gate has double wooden gates. On the northeast side, an iron kissing gate provides access, while further north, there are square rock-faced gate piers with domed caps leading to a single wide iron gate. The south side of the wall includes two infilled former gateways. Additionally, the wall serves as a revetment on the southwest side of the churchyard, where it is integrated with a circular pound that has a modern gate.
Local climate
Churchyard wall, including pound & lych gate, at St Cynog's church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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