Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Davids Cathedral Close: Vicar's College
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Religious House (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Religious House
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 15 January 1992
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88261, -5.26764
- SAM number
- PE441
- Cadw record number
- 2738
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (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 a religious house, a monastic house of unknown status, dating to the medieval period. The Vicar’s College stood in a paddock in the north-east corner of the Cathedral Close. Perhaps founded in 1287 by Bishop Bek and was reorganised by Bishop Houghtin in 1379. All the priests, deacons and sub-deacons of the lower chapter were to occupy separate houses with a communal refectory. After the Dissolution their use changed and efforts to repair them in 1693 failed. Recent maps show the site of the refectory but the individual houses show as small rectangular terraces within the paddock.
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
- Outbuilding to N. of The Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cloister HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Davids Cathedral Close: Cloister Hall (Undercroft only)Undercroftunder 1 mi
- Wall of walled garden to S. of Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.