Chapel of our Lady & St Non is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1992. Visitor centre, coffee shop.
Chapel of our Lady & St Non
- WRENN ID
- dusk-gravel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1992
- Type
- Visitor centre, coffee shop
- Address
- Chapel of our Lady & St Non, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- OS grid reference
- SM 752 243
- Coordinates
- 51.87235, -5.26675
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chapel of Our Lady & St Non is a small rectangular chapel built from rubble stone, designed in a careful medieval style that reflects local architectural traditions. It features a graded slate roof, battered corner buttresses, a corbel table that runs around the building, and coped side parapets. The gables are coped and shouldered, with a west gabled bellcote topped by a cross finial.
The west end of the chapel has a round-arched door, a blank round-headed panel in the gable, and a round-headed opening in the bellcote. There are two round-arched windows on each side, with a larger round-arched window at the east end that breaks the corbel table. All openings are framed with flush ashlar mouldings made from Forest of Dean stone.
Inside, the chapel is divided by a rubble wall that has a round arch leading to the chancel. The roof is supported by collar trusses with king-posts. The windows contain stained glass, featuring four single figures of saints in the side windows and a figure of St Non in the east end window, which is signed by William Morris of Westminster.
The chapel incorporates various medieval fragments, including carved pieces in the altar believed to have come from the former Priory of Whitwell, a battered piscina from an outbuilding at Caerforiog Farm near Solva, a small font from the site of a chapel at Gwrhyd, and a stone in the altar from the ruins of St Patrick's Chapel at Whitesand Bay. Additionally, there is a large white marble statue of the Virgin and Child, which is a copy of a 19th-century original located in Notre Dame de Victoire, Paris, created by Boulton of Cheltenham.
Local climate
Chapel of our Lady & St Non sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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