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
5927
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1970
Date of Amendment
08/02/1996
Name of Property
St. Michael and All Angel's Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Stackpole and Castlemartin
Town
Locality
Bosherston
Easting
196607
Northing
194828
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
At the N end of Bosherston village.
Church of perhaps C12, extensively restored in 1855 by Lord Cawdor. Chancel and nave with N and S transepts, W tower and porch. Squint linking S transept and chancel. Vestry N of Chancel.
Exterior: Original limestone masonry in large blocks. Slate roofs with sprockets at eaves. Recently re-roofed. On the N wall of the nave are signs of a lost N porch. Tower probably later than nave, battered at base. Three storeys. Corbelled parapet with crenellations. Louvred belfry openings on all sides. Stairs turret at the SE corner of the tower, also crenellated.
Interior: The nave, tower, transepts and porch are vaulted. The transepts meet the nave each side through a pointed arch, but the tower open directly to the nave. Timber roof in the chancel. Minton encaustic tile floor in chancel with arms of Lord Cawdor. Good east window in Early English style with three lancets and four thin Purbeck marble columns to the inside arches. Stained g]ass 1872, in memory of Rev. W Allen. Modern oak table. Corbels of former rood beam. Square Norman font, scraped. C 14 effigy-tombs in the transepts. Ogee-headed piscina in the S transept, at a low level which indicates the floor has been raised about 0.5 m.
Listed Grade II* as a mediaeval church with good C19 E window.
References: Information from Rev. J H Richards
RCAHM Inventory (1925) 21
Dyfed Arch. Trust: S&M PRN 627
Interior
Reason for designation
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