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Lychgate at St Tudor's Church Mynyddislwyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Ynysddu, Caerphilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6386 / 51°38'19"N

Longitude: -3.1668 / 3°10'0"W

OS Eastings: 319350

OS Northings: 193960

OS Grid: ST193939

Mapcode National: GBR HY.7XVY

Mapcode Global: VH6DN.226N

Plus Code: 9C3RJRQM+F7

Entry Name: Lychgate at St Tudor's Church Mynyddislwyn

Listing Date: 16 September 1999

Last Amended: 16 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22315

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300022315

Location: On the N side of the churchyard adjacent to the Church Inn, forming the main entrance to the walled churchyard.

County: Caerphilly

Community: Ynysddu (Ynys-ddu)

Community: Ynysddu

Locality: Mynyddislwyn

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Probably contemporary with the rebuilding work on the church c 1820.

Exterior

Lychgate is a symmetrical almost square building of tooled stone and coursed rubble with a pyramidal tiled roof and overhanging eaves; eilliptical archways with voussoirs and a string course at impost level; iron gates with roundel motif. Service board attached to front.

Interior

Stone benches are on either side of the wall.

Reasons for Listing

An unusually well-designed lychgate which has group value with the church.

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  • II* Church of St Tudor Mynyddislwyn
    On the crest of Mynyddislwyn, surrounded by a walled churchyard.
  • II Caerllwyn Isaf and attached byre/stable
    On the W flank of Mynyddislwyn, close to the N/S mountain road which leads S to Cwmfelinfach in the Sirhowy Valley; stands in a walled and gated enclosure with stone stile to field.
  • II Ton-eithin
    Just E of the crest of Mynyddislwyn, SE of the church, on the upper slope of Nant Hafod-Tudur, reached by a long farm track.
  • II Glebe Farm
    On the S flank of Mynyddislwyn, off the E side of the lane leading S to Cwmfelin-fach, and reached by a farm track across fields.
  • II Wall, railings and gates at New Bethel Chapel graveyard
    Wall completely surrounds the original graveyard and extends uphill along the lane fronting the graveyard extension, ending in a recess with double gates.
  • II Ty Mynydd
    On the mountain W of Abercarn, NE of the mountain hamlet of Mynyddislwyn and reached by a track from the Craig y Darren lane.
  • II Monuments to James Thomas and family at New Bethel
    In New Bethel graveyard, on the S side of the chapel, the figure monument on the boundary wall between the old cemetery and the extension with the tomb chest below.
  • II Monument to Thomas Henry Thomas at New Bethel
    On the S side of the chapel, a little N of the James Thomas monument and also by the wall dividing the original cemetery from the later extension.

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