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
12549
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/1981
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Retaining Wall on SE.Side of River Alun, from Ford to Bridge by Cloister Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
Easting
175102
Northing
225448
Street Side
Location
Situated along riverside to NW of cathedral buildings from ford opposite Bishop's Palace to bridge beyond remains of St Mary's College.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Uncertain date.
Exterior
Long length of rubble stone retaining wall to canalised section of river, behind cathedral buildings. From ford past footbridge by Pen-y-ffos to NW angle of Cathedral Hall, a plain retaining wall with flat coping. Beyond Cathedral Halls higher garden wall, then the W end of the undercroft of former St Mary's College with high rubble wall, then low retaining wall up to bridge carrying derelict remains of early C20 structure associated with Cathedral Yard and then short length of iron railings at back of Cloister Hall yard.
In the length of the wall various culvert outlets some connected with Sir G G Scott's restoration of the 1860s, some possibly ancient.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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