Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard gates and railings, Church of Saint Thomas a Becket
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, designated on 30 November 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 November 2005
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79990, -4.96909
- Cadw reference
- 87045
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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Mainly to the N and E of the churchyard, the gates on the W side to Church Lane.
History
Churchyard gates and railings to Church of St Thomas. 1857, to plans by William Phillips, church secretary and architect, the ironwork by Stephen Green of Haverfordwest.
Exterior
Churchyard gatepiers, gates and railings. Two cast-iron square Gothic gatepiers with plinths, shallow gothic panel each face, moulded cornice and gilded Gothic finial on pedestal. Finial is a fliate cross with four arms. Double gates with spearhead finials above top rail and double mid-rail. Thin plain wrought iron railings, short length from S pier to corner of No 5 Church Lane, long length following footpath around N and E sides of churchyard. Scrolled fleur-de-lys finials to stanchions.
Reason for designation
Included for special interest as a good set of C19 cast-iron Gothic gate piers and gate, with railings of group value with church of St Thomas.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint Thomas a BecketReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 7 Hermon's HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Hermon's HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall enclosing grounds to Hermon's Hill House on W, S and E sidesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.