Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
12046
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/07/1974
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
Forecourt dwarf wall and railings to Tabernacle Church and to Tabernacle Church School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195118
Northing
215744
Street Side
W
Location
Situated across the E fronts of the chapel and school, overlooking junction with Perrots Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Common forecourt dwarf wall and railings to Tabernacle Congregational Church and School. The iron railings with spike finials may date from when the schoolroom was built in 1864, but the fine openwork gatepiers and ornate gates are earlier, possibly by J. Marychurch of Haverfordwest. The minutes of the Perrot Trust in 1858 record a request that William Owen and John Phillips quantify the number of kerb stones required to receive the iron railings to be erected in front of Tabernacle Chapel and that Messrs Marychurch & Son be directed to cast the palisades for the chapel yard according to the pattern No 14 with the addition of ornaments between each rail.
Exterior
Long run of iron railings with cast-iron spearheads on low stone wall with stone coping. Scrolled wrought iron supports. Matching gate to the schoolroom with wrought iron scrolls in bottom rail. The main entrance to the Church forecourt has two fine gate piers of an openwork of intersected half circles with a lozenge pattern at the bottom and a diagonal pierced cross at the top. Cast-iron supports on top to acanthus caps carrying modern lamps. The double gates are exceptionally ornate, with dense patterning below the mid rail, which has small spearheads between the upper plain rails. Above the top rails, delicate wrought-iron scrollwork to the taller meeting stile with 'Taber' and 'nacle' in cursive script. At left end of railings is a sandstone pier.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included at a higher grade as exceptional gatepiers and gates of the earlier C19, with railings of group value.
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