Lychgate at the Church of St Mary and St Egryn, Llanegryn, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6316 / 52°37'53"N

Longitude: -4.0748 / 4°4'29"W

OS Eastings: 259678

OS Northings: 305783

OS Grid: SH596057

Mapcode National: GBR 8S.77CH

Mapcode Global: WH575.C3VW

Plus Code: 9C4QJWJG+J3

Entry Name: Lychgate at the Church of St Mary and St Egryn

Listing Date: 17 June 1966

Last Amended: 26 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4730

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300004730

Location: The church stands c500-600m N of the present village. The lychgate forms the entrance to the churchyard from the E.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llanegryn

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Lychgate

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History

The churchyard around the medieval church was originally round or oval, but was extended in 1883 to its present form and the lychgate, originally built in the later C15, was re-set in its present position at the new E entrance.

Exterior

The lychgate is built with stone and slate side walls c2m high carrying front and back trusses supporting the old slate roof. Slightly cusped bargeboards.

Interior

The front and back trusses consist of principal rafters cusped above the knee-braced collars. Ladder wall plates with ashlars rising from the inner plate. Chamfered purlins with cusped wind braces each side. The soffit of the roof is boarded.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an interesting survival of a medieval lychgate, and one where the roof construction shows affinities on a much smaller scale with the medieval roofs of the church and its porch.

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I Church of St Mary and St Egryn
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II Barn at Tynewydd, adjoining Rhine Cottage
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II Rhine Cottage
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II Monument to Parch. Hugh Owen
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II Capel Ebenezer, with vestry and front railed forecourt
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Lychgate at the Church of St Mary and St Egryn

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanegryn, Gwynedd