Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint Basil is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 2003. Lychgate.
Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint Basil
- WRENN ID
- keen-entrance-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 August 2003
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint Basil, Bassaleg, Graig
- OS grid reference
- ST 277 870
- Coordinates
- 51.57759, -3.04431
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate, churchyard walls, and railings at the Church of Saint Basil are notable structures from the 20th century. The lychgate features an oak timber frame set on base walls made of purple squared stone, with grey sandstone dressings and a plain-tile roof topped with terracotta ridge tiles. The two walls have dressings at the ends and chamfered copings that support the oak superstructure. It includes moulded bargeboards on shaped brackets and deep-arched trusses at both the front and rear, which are enhanced by high brattished collars. The front truss also has a lower applied collar inscribed with the phrase "They were as a wall unto us both by night and day," along with intricate oak-leaf and laurel carvings above the lower collar, flanking a cast metal figure of St George set against a gold and red mosaic background, all rising into the gable with an upper collar behind.
Bronze panels affixed to the front piers list the names of those who fell in the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45, accompanied by carved scrolls. The lychgate has double oak gates featuring arch-bracing and iron scrolls in the top panels. The rear of the lychgate mirrors the front but lacks the statue. Inside, it has a scissor-rafter roof. The sides are constructed with 4-bay square framing and cusped panels that support a wall-plate extended outward to carry the front bargeboards.
To the left, there is a stone wall with gabled coping that steps up to connect with the tower of the Tredegar Arms inn, which is listed separately. On the right, a serpentine curved wall features similar coping. The main churchyard wall is topped with roll-topped sandstone ashlar copings that step downhill, accompanied by iron railings divided into sections by broad piers with sandstone ashlar quoins and matching gabled copings. The railings are adorned with spearheads, fleur-de-lys finials, and wrought iron trefoils and quatrefoils. A retaining wall with railings and intermittent piers extends down the south side of the churchyard and around the southeast corner, returning slightly simplified up the east side, where the railings sit atop a coped wall without piers. In the center of the east side, there is a pair of large gates with matching ironwork set between similar gatepiers, with the wall and railings continuing to the right, stopping against a rubble wall at the northeast corner of the churchyard.
Local climate
Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint Basil receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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