Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11988
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1963
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Church of St Ishmael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Camrose
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Camrose
Easting
192712
Northing
220066
Street Side
Location
Situated in churchyard in centre of Camrose village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Anglican parish church with late medieval W tower and nave and chancel possibly C15 also, much restored in 1878 and 1884 by J P Seddon who renewed all the roofs. The church was seriously damaged by fire in 2000, and at time of listing was inaccessible. Plans by Seddon for the restoration are in the possession of the church, mostly for executed work but also for a porch and a chancel screen, not done.
Exterior
Parish church, rubble stone with slate roofs. Nave and chancel possibly C14 with C15 with W tower and big canted three-sided NE stair tower. Tower has corbelled battlements and narrow louvred slots for bell openings, stair tower has similar battlements and weathercock. Two stone rainwater spouts on tower W front. Unusually long nave and chancel. Nave restored by Seddon with paired cusped lancet windows, at time of writing mostly boarded over, three windows to each side with door between first and second. Coped W gable. Chancel is windowless to N, E window boarded over and S has boarded window to left and blocked window centre.
Interior
Vaulted base to tower. The fire in 2000 damaged the nave roof of 1884, which had pitch-pine arch-braced trusses, the braces in two tiers, and with king-posts. but this is to be restored. C12 font, square with scalloped underside and round shaft. Said to have a piscina with ogee head possibly C14 in the chancel, short stone benches and traces of a rood stair cut out of the wall, blocking a lancet. Two blocked ogee lancets in the S wall. Chancel roof of 1878 of scissor-rafters. Fittings: pulpit and pews by Seddon. Stained glass: nave NE window c1927 by Kempe & Co, SS Aedda and Alban. Memorials: Emma Webb Bowen (d 1852) by T Jones; William Fortune (d 1881); Charles Webb Bowen (d 1881), by T Morgan & Son.
Reason for designation
Medieval parish church with battlemented W tower, the fabric much restored by the distinguished C19 architect, J P Seddon.
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