History

The boundary walls and gates were erected on the church site in 1881, although the church itself was not completed until 1888. The lychgate was probably designed by the architect of the church, Robert Curwen of London and Liverpool, but the boundary walls are of a type common in this part of Colwyn Bay.

Exterior

Rough random rubble to boundary walls, polygonal black granite to lychgate, with freestone dressings, including the raking gabled roof. Deep moulded archway with inscribed band and plain chamfered responds in either side of the gabled lychgate, clasped by buttresses terminating in pinnacles with traceried arcaded bands. Low chamfered timber gates, with openwork panels, with cross braced timber in the upper panels, and wrought iron below.

Boundary walls have rustic embattled parapets,raised at intervals over lancet-like recesses. The wall terminates at each end of the church yard in polygonal turretted gate piers.

Reasons for Listing

Part of a group with the church of Saint John, the lychgate is an excellent and
robustly detailed example of its type.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29492488

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)