Former Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 2002. Chapel.

Former Cemetery Chapel

WRENN ID
deep-cupola-crimson
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
Chapel
Address
Former Cemetery Chapel, Tenby
OS grid reference
SN 130 011
Coordinates
51.67798, -4.70529
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former cemetery chapel is constructed from squared grey limestone with Bath stone dressings and features a slate roof with coped shouldered gables. Built in the Decorated Gothic style, it is a single rectangular structure with a thin tower and an octagonal spirelet at the northwest corner. The north front includes a lancet window with a hoodmould above a pointed doorway, both of which are double chamfered and have hoodmoulds. The door hood is linked to a string course on either side. The chapel has a raised plinth and tooled limestone buttresses at the corners. The entrance features double board doors with 20th-century glazing in the overlight.

The chapel has five-bay sides with ashlar corbelled eaves and buttresses. On the west side, the tower rises from the first bay, with a pair of cusped lancets in the second bay, a single cusped lancet in the third and fourth bays, and a blank fifth bay. The east side is similar but has a blank first bay. The tower features a tall lancet window at ground level, chamfered ashlar coping above the chapel eaves, and a square inset second stage with flat buttresses at the corners. Above this is a thin octagonal bell-stage with lancets on the cardinal faces and an ashlar spire above.

The south end wall has clasping buttresses at the angles and a 2-light traceried window with cusped lights and a cinquefoil head, complete with a hoodmould and string course beneath the sill.

Inside, there is a porch with a boarded ribbed ceiling. A plaque from 1854 lists the names of Rev W Hayward Cox, the rector, and churchwardens J M Henton and T Thomas. The roof is three-sided, supported by four tie-beam trusses with queen-posts and curved angle struts, extending down to wall-posts. The west end window features patterned stained glass with texts dedicated to W L Duckworth, who died in 1846.

Local climate

Former Cemetery Chapel 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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