Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Thomas A Beckett
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, designated on 22 February 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1993
- Community
- Milford Haven
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71095, -5.02586
- Cadw reference
- 12904
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated set back behind No 26 The Rath.
History
Anglican chapel of ease, medieval, restored from ruin in l930-l.
Exterior
Rubble stone with graded slate roof, small nave and chancel, both with pointed barrel vaults, which survived roofless and without the west wall. Simple camber-headed windows with wooden 2-light frames, all of l930-l, one large on W wall, one on door to nave, one to chancel N and chancel E, two small single lights to nave S and one to chancel S.
Interior
Simple with plastered vaults, small niches each side in chancel and curved rood beam with rood. Nave S windows have stained glass of l935 and l939 to Sir Hugh Thomas of Castle Hall. E window of chancel has stained glass.
Reason for designation
The only survivor of three small medieval chapels in the Milford area. Mentioned as ruinous by Fenton (l8ll).
Nearby in the register
- Church of St KatharineReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 163 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 161 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 159 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.