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Mounting Block, St Michael and All Angels' Church, Castlemartin

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NPRN422362
Map ReferenceSR99NW
Grid ReferenceSR9105398832
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityCastlemartin
Type Of SiteMOUNTING BLOCK
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
The mounting platform is Grade II listed, considered an interesting survival of group value with the St Martin and All Angels Church (NPRN 308940). Evidently to facilitate mounting a horse, but undatable. Said to have been used until c.1920.

It consists of a square platform about 1.1m in height, with six steps, all in rubble masonry. The top consists mostly of a single large slab. Roughly built and oddly positioned away from and at an angle to the churchyard wall. Adjaecnt is a set of iron rings set in the adjacent wall for tethering horses.

Sources include:
Cadw Listed Buildings database

N Vousden, 17 November 2017