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
6015
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1970
Date of Amendment
08/02/1996
Name of Property
St. Petrox Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Stackpole and Castlemartin
Town
Locality
St. Petrox
Easting
197070
Northing
197559
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Prominently sited at N side of B4319 road.
A small church dedicated to the C6 Saint Pedrog. Perhaps C13, but much restored in 1854 (by R K Penson?) at the expense of Lord Cawdor. At this time the chancel was rebuilt and a vestry added. Chancel approx. 5.5 m by 3.5 m, nave approx 10 x 5 m, with vestry and transept at N. Porch at S and tower at W.
Exterior: The original masonry appears in the N wall of the nave and the W wall of the transept. Large sandstone courses, battered at the base. Smaller rubble courses at the head of the wall. A blocked low doorway is visible externally in the N wall of the nave. The tower is built in large irregular limestone courses, battered at base. The tower has a corbelled parapet with deep crenellations. There are louvred belfry openings to all faces. The stairs turret projects 0.3 m at the N and W, and is also crenellated. Exposed rafter verge without a bargeboard at the gable of the porch and the chancel.
To match the new chancel the whole of the original S side apart from the tower was thinly refaced in snecked masonry to no aesthetic advantage in the 1850s restoration. This was carried out in red sandstone, the stone of the porch being from a different source (or different quarry stratum) to that of the nave refacing. New bell-turret above the chancel arch, where there was one originally. Slate roof covering throughout, with rafter sprockets at eaves.
Interior: Nave, tower, transept and porch have pointed vaults. Tower vault open fully to the nave. Chancel arch C19 of two orders with Early English style corbel caps. C19 windows throughout in lancet form, but E window in three lights, cinquefoiled, with tracery. Single step at chancel arch and at altar rail. Minton encaustic tile paving in chancel with arms of Lord Cawdor.
C19 Norman-style font. Memorials include an unusual brass in memory of William Lloyd, 1674, with skull and cross-bones. Baroque memorial to Lady Jone Mansell, 1692.
A modern churchyard cross on an old base.
Listed mainly for mediaeval tower and well-proportioned interior.
Reference: RCAHM Inventory (1925) 381
Information from Rev. J H Richards
Dyfed Arch. Trust S&M PRN 596
Interior
Reason for designation
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