Former Tenby Market Cross and well-chamber is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 2002. A Medieval Monument.
Former Tenby Market Cross and well-chamber
- WRENN ID
- stark-dormer-aspen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 March 2002
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SN 131 010
- Coordinates
- 51.67691, -4.70461
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Tenby Market Cross and well-chamber is a medieval structure featuring a cross shaft mounted on the front wall of a square rubble stone well-chamber that incorporates re-used medieval arcading. The well-chamber has a narrow doorway at the front, with the head rising into the center bay of a band of reused late medieval arcading, which may have originated from a large window. This band includes three cusped pointed heads and a half head at each end. Above this is a projecting coping made of flat stones, followed by a two-step parapet of rubble stone that supports the cross itself. The cross has a square base, which is likely not medieval, and a sandstone shaft above it. The shaft is octagonal, standing 2.2 meters high and measuring 0.35 meters by 0.25 meters at the base. The well-chamber behind features a tall and narrow design with a brick pointed vault and a slate gabled roof.
Local climate
Former Tenby Market Cross and well-chamber sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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