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Latitude: 52.7747 / 52°46'28"N
Longitude: -3.1614 / 3°9'41"W
OS Eastings: 321745
OS Northings: 320308
OS Grid: SJ217203
Mapcode National: GBR 6Z.Y6JT
Mapcode Global: WH793.DJS7
Plus Code: 9C4RQRFQ+VC
Entry Name: Lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery
Listing Date: 2 March 2004
Last Amended: 2 March 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82564
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300082564
Location: To west of village, north of the road to Llanfechain.
County: Powys
Community: Llansantffraid (Llansanffraid)
Community: Llansantffraid
Locality: Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain village
Built-Up Area: Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Lychgate
Probably built in 1905: a brass plate in the lychgate commemorates Caroline Griffiths and carries the date 'Oct 1905'. The first tombstones in the cemetery are dated 1906. (A possible design by the same hand as Plas Derwen?)
A stone lychgate in sneck-coursed yellow sandstone with a pyramidal red tile roof and a pole finial. Large curling iron brackets support the eaves on all sides. Wide openings at front and rear but double timber gates to the front only. The front and rear walls extend out into slight buttresses. Slit windows each side of the entrances at front and rear, singly at sides.
Side bench with cupboard space beneath.
A fine Voyseyesque Arts and Crafts lychgate to a village cemetery.
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