CALDEY PRIORY, CALDEY

Site Details

NPRN
96020
Map Reference
SS19NW
Grid Reference
SS14059625
Unitary (Local) Authority
Pembrokeshire
Old County
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Type of Site
PRIORY
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Medieval;Post Medieval

Site Description

Caldey Priory was probably founded in the twelfth century although the church dates from the thirteenth. There were additions in the fourteenth century and alterations in the fifteenth and sixteenth. The church quire had been remodelled as a two storey farmhouse by 1800, and the complex later became the anciliary building to a new house. It was restored in the nineteenth century.

It is of rubble stone construction with a slate roof and the buildings are grouped around a small courtyard with the church to the south side consisting of nave, chancel and west tower with a spire. On the north side is a domestic range and the gatehouse is on the western and there is a two storey tower on the eastern. The Caldey Stone is on the south wall of the nave, which has an Ogham inscription of the fifth or sixth century carved into it. There is a cusped thirteenth century piscina in the south wall of the chancel.

J Hill, RCAHMW, 23 September 2003.

Duplicate of Nprn245