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
13102
Building Number
 
Grade
I  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/11/1993  
Date of Amendment
15/11/1993  
Name of Property
Ruins of Abbey of St Mary  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
St. Dogmaels  
Town
 
Locality
Shinrig  
Easting
216404  
Northing
245855  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated S of the parish church.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Founded 1115 by the FitzMartin family, Lords of Cemais. Ruins of medieval abbey of the Order of Tiron. Originally built in the earlier C12 as aisled church with apsidal E end and transept chapels, uncompleted; remodelled in C13, aisleless with rebuilt transepts, lengthened E end over a small crypt. Further altered in early C14, when W end was built and NW door added, and in the early C16 when the N transept was given fan vaulting. Extensive monastic buildings were to the S of the Abbey, and a detached building of the late C13, possibly an infirmary chapel or infirmary to the SE.  

Exterior
The abbey walls survive to substantial height on the W end, N wall and N transept, and the E end crypt walls survive. Elsewhere low walls or foundations, except for the infirmary which has three walls intact, and part of the rough stone vault. Collected carved stonework in the infirmary, and several of the incised stones formerly in the parish church are collected against the S wall. Scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 73  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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