Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Boundary Wall on N.side of the Pebbles
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 August 1981.
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
- 51.88117, -5.26865
- Cadw reference
- 12544
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Extending from Porth y Twr along S side of churchyard to corner opposite The Deanery coach-house and returning northwards to Deanery Gate.
History
Uncertain date
Exterior
Rubble stone wall between roadway and the cathedral graveyard, partly a retaining wall - the roadway being higher than the graveyard along the S side and lower along the W side. Within the churchyard various C19 memorials are affixed to the N Side of the wall from the 39 Steps westward, notably to Wilcox family ca1850, Rees family of Croeswdig ca1850 and Hughes family ca1843.
Reason for designation
Group value with the cathedral.
Nearby in the register
- Wall along S.Side of the PebblesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard with Memorials surrounding St. David's Cathedral (Memorials previously listed separately)Commemorativeunder 1 mi
- The Close Wall (formerly listed with Porth Y Twr)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Coach House to the DeaneryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.