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
12781
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/1992
Date of Amendment
27/10/1992
Name of Property
Church of St Nicholas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Nevern
Town
Locality
Monington/Eglwys Wythwr
Easting
213541
Northing
243810
Street Side
Location
Situated in isolated position some 150m down lane running S from junction about 330m E of Rhydyfantwn Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
1860 Anglican parish church designed by R.J.Withers, architect of London, in tooled blue lias ashlar with slate roof and red tile cresting. Nave, chancel, N porch, SE vestry and W bellcote. Small Gothic church with cusped lancet windows, one pair to each side of nave, 2-light with quatrefoil head to chancel N, 2-light with sexfoil head to E and single lancet to S chancel Lean-to S chancel vestry with shouldered head to W door, 2-light E window and fine chimney stack on chancel S wall, battered in three steps and with square smoke vents under hipped stone cap. N porch is gabled with roll-moulded pointed doorway and similar inner door with wrought-iron hinges. W front has projected centre, 2-light plate traceried W window with trefoil head, the projection shouldered at springing level of window and then continuing up, first battered and then straight, to base of Doulting stone bellcote; battered sides and then pointed arch with chamfered piers, coped gable and weathercock.
Churchyard is roughly circular with gates at NW. Iron railed enclosure for tombs of James family of Pantsaeson.
Interior
3-bay nave roof with arch-braced collar trusses, octagonal stone font and timber pulpit. Plastered walls and chancel arch. Scissor rafter roof to chancel, timber reredos and altar rails. Two strips of painted decoration in tones of brown on chancel side walls, cherubs and angels.
Reason for designation
A well designed small church in severe High Victorian Gothic manner.
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