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.
Date of Designation
29/07/2005
Date of Amendment
29/07/2005
Name of Property
Gates at SW, and railings to S and W sides of churchyard of St Mary
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Location
On the corner of Northgate Street and Main Street running E to No. 2 Main Street and N to Nos. 2-4 Northgate Street.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Late C19 gates and railings presumably dating from after 1890 when the new W door into the church was opened. Shown in photograph of 1926.
Exterior
Gates and railings. Two Gothic stone gatepiers at NW angle and two lengths of iron railings on concrete plinth and rubble lower walls, one running E to corner of No 2 Main Street, the other N to gate at corner of Nos 2-4 Northgate St. The gates have massive stone piers of grey limestone with plinth, square chamfered shaft, machicolated cornice and heavy cross-gabled cap with trefoil panels in gables, roll-moulds on top. Double gates with big fleur-de-lys outer finials, smaller fleur-de-lys finials to main uprights and dog-bars. Double mid-rails, top rails ramped up to inner upright. Similar railings with larger fleurs-de-lys to stanchions.
Reason for designation
Included as a special example of ornate late C19 gates and railings, of group value with the Church of St Mary.
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