Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bier House in Churchyard at St Nicholas Church
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Nevern, Pembrokeshire, designated on 27 October 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 October 1992
- Community
- Nevern
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06101, -4.72141
- Cadw reference
- 12782
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 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately S of churchyard wall, gable end to lane.
Exterior
Probably early C19 bier house in rubble stone, squared with tooled corner stones and grouted slate roof. W door with stone voussoirs. Three bay roof with pegged trusses.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with church and as good survivor of a rare building type. In 1991 it contained a pine bier dated 1796.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St NicholasReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas Lawrence, including two Bee boles in front of Garden WallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhydyfantwn BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glandwr, including attached outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.