Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ruins adjacent to Church Hill Cottage, Ruin C
Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1996
- Locality
- Manorbier Village
- Community
- Manorbier
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64393, -4.79767
- Cadw reference
- 18039
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At S side of Manorbier Churchyard in the grounds of Church Hill Cottage.
History
On the site of Church Hill Cottage is structural evidence of perhaps 5 buildings. It is traditionally thought that these buildings are (or incorporate remains of) a grange established after Sir John de Barri granted the Church to the Priory of Monkton in 1301.
In addition to the cottage itself [which is separately listed] there are (A) a building in tandem to the cottage to its E; (B) a building to the S of ‘A’ and at right-angles to it; (C) a building lying to its S; and (D) a building at the SW corner of the cottage garden. The Churchyard and the cottage site are both recorded as Rectorial Glebe in the 1840 Tithe Survey. Fenton (1810) refers to ‘no small remains of some chantry or collegiate building there being one large building still covered with a vaulted roof but entirely open to the west.’
Exterior
Building ‘C’ survives only as an oven in the S wall of the garden. Nearby is a fragment of C15 window tracery of unknown origin.
Reason for designation
Listed as a set of buildings in a very important historical relationship to Manorbier Church and also for group value with Church Hill Cottage.
Nearby in the register
- Ruins adjacent to Church Hill Cottage, Ruin ADomesticunder 1 mi
- Ruins adjacent to Church Hill Cottage, Ruin BDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church Hill CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- St James' ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.