The Old Vicarage (remains) is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Remains of a vicarage.

The Old Vicarage (remains)

WRENN ID
tilted-belfry-swallow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 May 1970
Type
Remains of a vicarage
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Local rubble masonry with traces of slate roofing. The N gable wall is 0.9 m thick and contains a chimney flue of oval shape in the wall thickness. An original entrance to the two-unit cottage with a heavy curved lintel is towards the S of the W wall, but now blocked. A lateral chimney survives at W serving a small corner fireplace. The third room added at the S end contains a large chimney with a square shaft, dripstone and capping.

The building incorporates parts of two arcades of C12 type, aligned N-S and standing about 5 m apart. The W arcade consists of one complete arch and a small portion of another, meeting on the outside face of a thick square abacus. This abacus stands on a slender column with a circular base and cap. The E arcade consists of two complete arches meeting on a very worn corbel. In 1852 these arcades were described as "on one side against the wall, on the other standing free". Both arcades blocked with walling. Carved faces on the abacus of the W side arcade, quite unlike the carved faces in the N and S arcades of the Church. The carved faces in the Old Vicarage are evidently an afterthought to the squaring of the abacus. They are inset within curved margins and shallowly detailed. There are faces on the two free corners, but there is also one in what appears a later style (bearded) on the engaged NW corner of the abacus, distorted because of its position. The latter at least is evidently later than the formation of the arcade blocking walls. Above the abacus is a socket hole.

The third room chimney contains a large open fireplace about 1.2m wide and deep, with a built-in cloam bread-oven marked 'W H Crocker' (of Bideford, Devon).

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