Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Whitesands Gate
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 28 March 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67213, -4.69619
- Cadw reference
- 26414
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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of St Julian's Terrace giving access from Castle Square to Castle Sands.
History
Archway to the South Beach of medieval origin, the name Whitesand Gate occuring as early as 1434, though the arch itself is possibly earlier C19, replacing an opening with stone voussoirs seen in sketches. The arch would be on a link wall to the castle defences, possibly the site of a sally port. A pre-1797 view published by Edward Laws in 1896 shows an arch that may be this one, linking to a length of crenellated wall running up to the castle. Laws confused the Whitesands Gate with a square tower demolished c1797 for the roadway from the Baths to the harbour.
Exterior
Archway with red brick cambered arch in tall crenellated rubble stone wall spanning from side of No 6 St Julian's Terrace to some crumbled masonry on the right side of the footpath to Castle Hill. Rubble masonry has 3 small rectangular openings, irregularly spaced and 4 irregular crenellations.
Reason for designation
Included as a picturesque feature of the harbour area possibly including medieval masonry.
Nearby in the register
- No 6 St Julian TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 5 St Julian TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Harbour HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Catherine's House, including area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.