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
26362
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Church of St Julian
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213610
Northing
200472
Street Side
S
Location
Situated S of the harbour and to the N of Bridge Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Anglican chapel of 1878 built for fishermen to replace a chapel on the pierhead dedicated to St Julian and dating from 1539, and possibly from the C15. This was abandoned in 1780, served as baths and as a blacksmith's store until demolished when the pier was rebuilt in 1842. The present church was designed by William Newton Dunn and opened 1/12/1878, the cost largely met by Miss Forde who had paid for the Fishermen's Rooms adjoining. Builder Wm Davies. Memorial windows were put in to designs by Joseph Bell of Bristol in 1881 and 1900, and another in 1923.
Exterior
Church, grey limestone rubble with Bath stone dressings and slate roof. Small single chamber in lancet Gothic style with hoodmoulded single lancet windows with iron lattice glazing except where stained glass has been introduced. W front has coped gable with cross finial, window each side of pointed door also with hoodmould. Double board doors. Rectangular louvred small vent in the gable. N side to harbour has 4 windows, 3 with stained glass. Rear E end is rendered and windowless. S side, below roadway, has 2 lancets.
Interior
Exposed rubble stone walls and boarded 3-sided roof. Stained glass windows one of 1881 by Bell of Bristol, of Christ walking on the water, to J and T Lilycrop and J Child, all drowned, 1881, another the Lord in Glory, to Ann Milward, 1900, also by Bell, another to Miss E Millward, 1923.
Reason for designation
Included as a small C19 Anglican chapel of historical interest as the fishermen's chapel and of group value with the other harbour buildings.
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