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
9392
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/1966
Date of Amendment
06/08/2001
Name of Property
Remains of Whitland Abbey including garden walls to S
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanboidy
Town
Whitland
Locality
Whitland
Easting
220791
Northing
218180
Street Side
Location
Situated some 2 km NE of Whitland, across lane from Whitland Abbey mansion.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Minimal footings of a major Cistercian abbey founded in 1140 and the site occupied from 1151. Damaged in the wars of the C13. Eight resident monks by 1440, and dismantled after 1536, the stone being used at Laugharne Castle. Cruciform plan, long 8-bay nave with narrow aisles, of cross-plan piers. The walled garden bisects the S transept, and the cloister site is within the garden.
The walled garden walls may incorporate medieval stonework but are mainly C19 and relate to Whitland Abbey mansion across the road. The present later C19 mansion dates at its earliest from about 1847 for W.H. Yelverton, but the Tithe map of 1839 shows a house on the site of the present Home Farm and the walled gardens could have been made for this house, owned by John Morgan, iron-master of Furnace, from 1779, whose daughter married Yelverton in 1825.
Exterior
The minimal remains of church: pillar bases of nave and low walls of presbytery lie to the N of the main garden wall, a long stretch partly on site of nave S wall. Rubble stone with yellow brick coping, raised in red brick with some clay tiles, serpentine curve at E end. Rubble stone gateway towards W end with segmental pointed door and loop above under a coped shouldered gable. Wall is thicker to right of gateway, but not to full height. Four buttresses to left of gateway. The stretch of eroded and low wall running S follows line of E front wall of lay brothers dormitory. Rear W boundary wall runs S to small C19 square turret with corbelled parapet at SW end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as remnant of a major Cistercian Abbey. The walls of walled garden included as possibly incorporating medieval walling from monastic buildings.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Cm 14.
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