Lychgate to Church of St Digain, Llangernyw, Conwy

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1923 / 53°11'32"N

Longitude: -3.6855 / 3°41'7"W

OS Eastings: 287485

OS Northings: 367466

OS Grid: SH874674

Mapcode National: GBR 68.2Z37

Mapcode Global: WH65S.C170

Plus Code: 9C5R58R7+WQ

Entry Name: Lychgate to Church of St Digain

Listing Date: 23 June 1967

Last Amended: 17 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 98

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300000098

Location: The lychgate is situated on the W side of the churchyard, close to the centre of Llangernyw village.

County: Conwy

Town: Abergele

Community: Llangernyw

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Lychgate

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History

Lychgate built in the C18, inscription on lintel dated 1745. Addition of cast iron gates and re-roofing in the C19, weathervane dated 1867.

Exterior

Vernacular masonry structure, square on plan, with gabled roof. Built of local stone rubble with painted rough-cast render on elevations; projecting spur stone at base of SW quoin. Roof of machine-made plain clay tiles with clayware ridge, open eaves and plain barge boards to gables. Decorated wrought iron finial and weathervane at W end of roof ridge. Doorway in W gable wall, facing street, has a painted timber lintel with a carved inscription reading 'E.LL . I.C Wardens 1745' and a pair of C19 cast iron gates with ramped top rails and fleur de lis head to balusters and dog bars. N and S elevations each have one small rectangular unglazed window with a fixed 4-light iron casement.

Interior

Open rafter roof on purlins spanning between gable walls. Plastered walls and splayed window embrasures. Slate-topped wall benches on N and S sides.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a surviving example of an C18 lychgate retaining much of its historic fabric and for group value with adjacent church and churchyard monuments.

External Links

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II Siop Ucha
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II Ivy Cottage
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II* Church of St Digain
The parish church stands S of the centre of a roughly oval-shaped churchyard on the S side of Llangernyw village centre. The churchyard is entered through a lychgate at W.
II Pen Uchar Llan
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II Raised Slab Monument to Harry Lloyd in churchyard of Church of St Digain
In th SW section of the churchyard, adjacent to the S wall of the church vestry.
II General Store
The building stands on the W side of the A548, approximately 40m N of the centre of Llangernyw village.
II Llys Alaw
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II Group of 2 Monuments in churchyard to Church of St Digain
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Lychgate to Church of St Digain

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangernyw, Conwy