Mounting Platform is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Church.

Mounting Platform

WRENN ID
deep-landing-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 May 1970
Type
Church
Address
Mounting Platform, Castlemartin
OS grid reference
SR 910 988
Coordinates
51.64936, -5.02175
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Mounting Platform is a square structure approximately 1.1 meters high, featuring six steps made of rubble masonry. The top is primarily a single large slab. It appears to have been designed for mounting a horse, although its exact date is unknown. It is reported to have been in use until around 1920. The platform is roughly constructed and is oddly situated away from and at an angle to the churchyard wall.

Additionally, there is a set of iron rings embedded in the nearby wall for tethering horses. This platform is an interesting historical feature and is included for its group value with the church.

Local climate

Mounting Platform sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 2 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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