Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Davids Cathedral Close: Cloister Hall (Undercroft only)
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Undercroft
- 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)
- 51.88256, -5.26819
- SAM number
- PE445
- Cadw record number
- 687
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 an undercroft, a vault or crypt under a church or chapel, dating to the medieval period. The five surviving undercrofts of the Cloister Hall are rubble vaulted and underlie the U-shaped range of domestic quarters of St Mary’s College founded in 1377. Several original openings survive.
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
- Undercrofts of former St Mary's College, beneath & to the rear of The Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cloister HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Enclosing Wall & Gateway on N.Side of rear yard of Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to N. of The Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.