Lychgate at Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2002. Lychgate.

Lychgate at Church of St Michael

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 2002
Type
Lychgate
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Lychgate which incorporates a war memorial. Main structure of unstained oak. The base or plinth is a stepped-up extension of the churchyard wall, with narrow wooden double gates with pierced lancets and quatrefoils, long decorative hinges and moulded and swept top rail. Gabled roof is slate covered with deeply overhanging sprocketed eaves, Tudor-arched main doorway, flanked by similar pierced lancets enriched by carved bunches of grapes on upper corners; inscription from St John's gospel over the lintel and further inscription on the crossed timbers attached to the boarded gable which is pierced by quatrefoils to side and a cross in apex. Side walls comprise panels of pierced lancets and quatrefoils divided by plain battered panels. W gable end is similar to E but with 7 quatrefoils above in place of the inscription.

Inside the porch are panelled pews against the side walls. A metal plaque commemorates the dead of the First World War.

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