Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The 39 Steps (fromerly included as flight of steps leading to St David's Cathedral Yard)
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88145, -5.26788
- Cadw reference
- 12540
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
Situated leading down into churchyard from The Pebbles, about 10m W of Porth y Twr.
History
Uncertain date, restored or altered in C19.
Exterior
Flight of thirty-nine broad slate steps enclosed each side by a rubble wall with cut stone coping.
Reason for designation
Steps are marked on J Lord's map of 1720 and illustrated in Norris/Byrne etching of 1810.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Porth-y-Twr, including Gateway & South TowerReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 9 The PebblesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard with Memorials surrounding St. David's Cathedral (Memorials previously listed separately)Commemorativeunder 1 mi
- 5A The PebblesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.