Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Animal Pound at Pembrey Church
Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1966
- Locality
- Pembrey
- Community
- Pembrey and Burry Port Town
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68757, -4.27518
- Cadw reference
- 11873
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the SW side of the churchyard.
History
An C18 or early C19 ffald, of a type familiar in Carmarthenshire churchyards, shown on the 1839 Tithe map. During World War II it was adapted as an air raid shelter by covering it with a concrete roof and a banking of earth against the outside of the wall and over the roof.
Exterior
A circular pound partly attached to the churchyard wall, of rubble stone with larger copings, and up to 1.9m high on the S side where the ground level is lower. It has a single opening on the S side.
Reason for designation
Listed primarily for its contribution to the historic context of the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St IlltydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former canal overbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on S side of Court FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Court FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.