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
6175
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/03/1951  
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002  
Name of Property
Medieval structure in the churchyard  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Tenby  
Town
Tenby  
Locality
 
Easting
213389  
Northing
200457  
Street Side
W  
Location
Situated some 20m W of the Church of Saint Mary in Liberty.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Ruins of a late medieval structure called the College, and described in the early C19 as the ruins of St Mary's College. The purpose is not in fact known but it may have been a choir school or used by chantry priests. The oddly flattened mouldings of the door are the same as those on the church W door which was dated 1496 and the S transept, also late C15. A drawing by Norris shows much more extensive remains in the early C19.  

Exterior
East wall of demolished medieval building, some 10m long, 2.5 to 3m high. Rubble stone, with wide pointed arched doorway to left with hoodmould, like the W door of the church, but on a less bold scale. Bath stone. Series of some six or seven thin mouldings, hollow, hollow with rosettes, bead and ogee. Inscription in outer arch under hood. Wall is set back to right of door, then single flat-headed window with cusped pointed light. Smaller door to right with hoodmoulds and similar late C15 mouldings, more eroded and on a lesser splay. To right, a C15 fragment, cusped ogee head with 2 quatrefoils in spandrels. Reset stone below with eroded cross between rosettes. Traces of limewash on rear.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as an important late medieval fragment, showing the unusual late Gothic seen in the Tenby church S porch and W door.  

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