Lychgate at Church of St Michael, Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith (Llanfihangel-y-Pwll a Lecwydd), Vale of Glamorgan

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4496 / 51°26'58"N

Longitude: -3.222 / 3°13'19"W

OS Eastings: 315179

OS Northings: 172996

OS Grid: ST151729

Mapcode National: GBR K6Z.JB

Mapcode Global: VH6FD.3TJM

Plus Code: 9C3RCQXH+R6

Entry Name: Lychgate at Church of St Michael

Listing Date: 25 April 2002

Last Amended: 25 April 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26488

Building Class: Commemorative

ID on this website: 300026488

Location: Forming the churchyard entrance NE of the church.

County: Vale of Glamorgan

Town: Cardiff

Community: Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith (Llanfihangel-y-Pwll a Lecwydd)

Community: Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith

Locality: Michaelston-le-Pit

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Lychgate

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History

Commemorates local soldiers killed in First World War. Dedicated in 1920.

Exterior

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.

Interior

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

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a fine small timber building; group value with the church.

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Other nearby listed buildings

I Church of St Michael
In the centre of the village, on a steep rise, the churchyard sloping to S.
II Nos 1, 2, 3 Church Cottages
On the opposite side of the road and to the N of the church.
II Telephone Call-box
In the village centre, adjacent to the gable end of the listed row of Church Cottages and opposite the church.
II The Old Dairy at Cwrt-yr-Ala
Standing on the N bank of the seventh pond in the valley SE of the main house.
II Cwrt-yr-Ala House
In a spectacular position, on a terraced slope overlooking a part-wooded valley, Cwm Penllwynog, through which runs the Winstone Brook later joining the Cadoxton River.
II Remains of Dinas Powis Castle
On a wooded spur in Castle Wood, immediately above the C20 development of Lettons Way and reached by footpath from there.
II Brynwell Farm including attached agricultural buildings
About 1km W of B4262, reached by minor road which joins B4262 near telephone box.
II Church of St Peter
On low-lying ground by the Cadoxton River a short distance N of the village centre.

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Lychgate at Church of St Michael

A Grade II Listed Building in Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith (Llanfihangel-y-Pwll a Lecwydd), Vale of Glamorgan