Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retaining Wall on SE.Side of River Alun, from Ford to Bridge by Cloister Hall
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
- 51.88212, -5.26914
- Cadw reference
- 12549
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
Situated along riverside to NW of cathedral buildings from ford opposite Bishop's Palace to bridge beyond remains of St Mary's College.
History
Uncertain date.
Exterior
Long length of rubble stone retaining wall to canalised section of river, behind cathedral buildings. From ford past footbridge by Pen-y-ffos to NW angle of Cathedral Hall, a plain retaining wall with flat coping. Beyond Cathedral Halls higher garden wall, then the W end of the undercroft of former St Mary's College with high rubble wall, then low retaining wall up to bridge carrying derelict remains of early C20 structure associated with Cathedral Yard and then short length of iron railings at back of Cloister Hall yard.
In the length of the wall various culvert outlets some connected with Sir G G Scott's restoration of the 1860s, some possibly ancient.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Footbridge by Pen-y-FfosTransportunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-FfosDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Davids Cathedral Close: Close Wall and Sites of Former GatewaysWallunder 1 mi
- St Davids Cathedral Close: The Free SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.