Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall along S.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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88114, -5.26850
- Cadw reference
- 12545
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 along S side of roadway from a point some 10m W of Porth y Twr to the coach-house E of The Deanery.
History
Uncertain date.
Exterior
Rubble stone retaining wall between roadway and grassy bank below the Close Wall. Rough rubble construction, some 1.5m to 2m high, returned at W end to gateway to coach-house yard.
Reason for designation
Group Value.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Boundary Wall on N.side of the PebblesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 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.