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
14343
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
Church of Saint John the Evangelist
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke Dock
Town
Locality
Easting
196748
Northing
203307
Street Side
S
Location
Situated on W corner of Church Street and Bush Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Church is interesting as the first ecclesiologically correct church in SW Wales, unusually based on local Pembrokeshire models (Tenby and Castlemartin). Plans were made 1845, David Griffiths and John Jones were builders, F Waples clerk-of-works. Cost was ú3,912. Tower is described as too low in 1848, and in 1857 Harrison said that it was not completed as planned, as a Royal Engineer from Dockyard supervised works.
Exterior
1846-8 Anglican Parish Church designed by James Park Harrison. Grey squared limestone with slate roofs, C13 style based on Pembrokeshire examples. Triple gabled nave, aisles, chancel, SE chapel and NE vestry, tower between N aisle and vestry. Coped gables and cross finials. Chancel has 3 lancets to centre of E end, 2-light with trefoil each side, single S side light, small pointed door and 2-light. S aisle has (from E): two single lights, one 2-light, door in gabled stone porch and single light. W end has three gables, two lancets and roundel to centre, single lancet each aisle. Nave N side has 1878 gabled stone porch and 3 lancets. Tower is sheer with NW stair tower, corbelled flat parapets and lancet bell-openings. 1865 iron clock faces. Pointed stair door and lancet over. Vestry single light and door beyond.
Interior
Plastered walls, steep-pitched open roofs, pointed grey stone chamfered arches to 5-bay arcades, chancel arch, and chancel side arches. Chancel has open rafter roof, sedilia on S side and fittings of 1878 by Wilson, Willcox and Wilson of Bath, who added ornate iron screen on low carved stone base, Gothic stalls and desks and E wall encaustic tile panelling. E window with rich colours 1898, by Herbert Davis. SE chapel was refitted 1919-20 by J Coates Carter as War Memorial, with oak screens to S aisle and chancel, sanctuary panelling, carved oak reredos and glass by C E Kempe and Co in E window and 2-light S window. Further series of windows by Kempe and Co in N and S aisles, mostly c1919-20, but one 2-light with C E Kempe emblem (pre-1907), otherwise three S aisle single lights and two single lights in N aisle. Very ornate Bath stone pulpit on short shafts and massive plain octagonal font of the 1878 refitting.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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