ST DOGMAELS ABBEY

Site Details

NPRN
94164
Map Reference
SN14NE
Grid Reference
SN1640445853
Unitary (Local) Authority
Pembrokeshire
Old County
Pembrokeshire
Community
St Dogmaels
Type of Site
ABBEY
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Medieval

Site Description

The medieval Abbey of St Mary at St Dogmaels was founded in 1115 by the FitzMartin family of Cemais and was of the Order of Tiron. The abbey was re-modelled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and in the sixteenth century the northern transept was given a fan vaulted roof.

Substantial remains of the abbey church survive, including the western end wall, the north wall, northern transept and the eastern end walls of the crypt. Extensive monastic buildings also survive to the south of the Abbey, and a detached building of the late thirteenth century, possibly an infirmary chapel or infirmary is located to the south-east.
RCAHMW, 3rd October 2007.