Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Claustral Buildings, St Clears Priory
St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Priory
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1997
- Community
- St. Clears
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.81352, -4.49415
- SAM number
- CM290
- Cadw record number
- 3658
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
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a priory, a monastery governed by a prior or prioress, dating to the medieval period and includes the remains of the Claustral buildings of the Cluniac Priory at St Clears, which was founded between 1147-84. It shows as a rectangular platform in a small paddock to the south of the former priory now parish church and is one of only two Cluniac cells founded in Wales.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval ecclesiastical organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Parish Church of St Mary MagdaleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to NMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cross House StoresCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cross HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.