Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard wall, gates and gatepiers to demolished Machpelah Church
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 July 1974
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79860, -4.98503
- Cadw reference
- 12204
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of the road just E of Snowdrop Lane.
History
C19 front walls, piers and gates to graveyard of former Machpelah Baptist chapel, built in 1842 and demolished 1999. The chapel was built as a branch of Bethesda, with a large graveyard for all the Baptists of the town.
Exterior
Walls of stone rubble with capping enclosing cemetery on three sides. Low front wall with railings, centre gateway and outer piers. Centre gateway has two sandstone gate piers with flat caps, and stepped plinths to concave curved pedestals carrying ball finials. Wrought iron gates with scrolled top ironwork, and dog bars. Walls are rebuilt with stone coping and reset spearhead iron railings. Inset plaque from demolished chapel 'Machpelah 1842'. Tooled stone rusticated outer piers with square caps and finials, right end pier incised 'The site of Machpelah Baptist Chapel 1842-1999.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-built graveyard wall of special historical interest as marking site of a lost chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Cemetery Gates, Gatepiers and adjoiniing railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- No 37 Perrot's TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- No 35 Perrot's TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 33 Perrot's TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.