History
Roman Catholic church in late Gothic style by F A Walters. Foundation stone laid August 1892, opened April 1893. Nave, chancel with E end to the road, and NW thin tower. An intended N aisle, with NW porch, was never built. It was supposed to cost £2000. Tenby was served from Haverfordwest from the 1840s, services in the Bucaneer Inn St Julian's Street, in the basement of Sparta House, Bridge Street, in the 1870s, and then from 1888 in the church of St Bride, Brychan Yard, Upper Frog Street. Father Placid Wareing built the present church, which was consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan in 1893.
Since the late C20 liturgical reforms most of the fittings have been removed. At the opening in 1893 there was a rood beam with cross and figures, a stone high altar on 4 marble columns, gift of the Connaught Rangers, with painted and gilded baldachino on chains and a tabernacle of repousse metal given by Miss James of Pantsaison, Monington, Pembs, all now gone. In a chapel, an alabaster altar given by a visitor in 1893, the chapel walls panelled in Bath and Caen stone with relief carving of the Entombment. Also a Caen stone angel and a Caen stone screen with marble shafts and alabaster panels. The chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel was redecorated in blue and gold by Mr Wise of Burns & Oates of London, in 1895, with picture of Virgin and Child over the altar. Statues of St Joseph and the Sacred Heart were placed on carved corbels in 1893. Kelly's Directory of 1926 mentions a fine alabaster altar in the S or Holy Cross chapel and stained glass over the Lady altar. Stained glass windows to Stewart and Dover families inserted, over altar, in 1929.