Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall and gate to garden W of the Abbey
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caldey Village, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 28 March 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Locality
- Caldey Village
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63741, -4.68751
- Cadw reference
- 26440
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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (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)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to the W and below the Abbey, along the road to the lighthouse.
History
Wall to monastery garden and gate to Abbot's chapel and house, designed by John Coates Carter. Wall built about 1911, gateway dated 1912. The gateway had a wrought iron cross on top.
Exterior
Rubble stone wall with gabled copings in red plain tiles and gateway to right. Wall is stepped up with slope, in 7 longer sections and one short one, each with tiled coping stopped just short of the step. Stone pier at downhill left end with pyramid tiled cap. Gateway at uphill right end is gabled with plain-tile coping, pointed arch with stone voussoirs and piers projected as 2 fat buttresses with tiled set offs. Right buttress is dated 1912. Short shoulder to right with gabled tiled coping, echoing coping to left.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the monastic complex designed by J Coates Carter.
Nearby in the register
- Saint Martin's TowerReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Post OfficeCivilunder 1 mi
- Caldey AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Birdbath in garden of former abbot's houseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.