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
12548
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/08/1981  
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992  
Name of Property
Retaining Wall to Churchyard from Deanery Gate to Ford opposite Bishops Palace, including Front Wall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
175091  
Northing
225390  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated to SW of cathedral between raised churchyard and lane running N from the Deanery to the ford.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Rubble stone retaining wall, free-standing at S end where there are a pair of big squat square stone piers with pyramid caps to Deanery Gate carriage entry. C20 wooden gates, and small stone kissing gate to N. From gate, some seven metres length, then retaining wall of some 22m length with two blocked loops at S end, similar to those in N wall of C14 St Mary's College and indicating the site of the undercroft described by Archdeacon Yardley in early C18 as 'one large vault of equal length, where materials are deposited for ye use and repairs of ye church". Yardley states that the school, previously in the W cloister, was moved here to what was a 'storehouse, or workhouse for ye use of ye church', and presumably a schoolroom was built above, that survived until 1791 when John Nash converted it into a much criticised chapter house which was demolished 1829. It is not known how much survives of the undercroft. Scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 442 (undercroft of demolished Free School).  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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