Upton Chapel is a Grade I listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. House.
Upton Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tired-column-holly
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upton Chapel is a Grade I listed building featuring a nave constructed from coursed rubble masonry of local stone, while the chancel is made of random rubble up to a height of 2 meters. The masonry on the south wall of the nave exhibits a change in character. The roofs are slated with tile ridges, and there is a bellcote above the west gable. The door and window openings are arched, made of handmade brick with stone imposts and keystones. On the north side of the nave, there is a blocked door, and the south wall of the chancel has a blocked trefoil-headed window.
The chapel consists of a small chancel measuring 4.8 meters by 3.2 meters and a small nave measuring 8 meters by 4.2 meters, connected by a round-headed plain chancel arch. The roofs feature lapped and pegged collar-beams with a slight camber. Inside the chancel, there is a plain piscina, and a Jacobean pulpit, believed to have originated from Haverfordwest in the 1840s.
Recessed into the north wall of the chancel are two sepulchral monuments: one, possibly belonging to a priest, is beneath a simple canopy, while the other commemorates a female member of the Malefant family, under an ogee canopy with finials. A 13th-century mailed effigy, brought from Nash church, is positioned against the opposite wall. The effigy of William Malefant, who died in 1362 and is depicted in chain-mail, is recessed into the north wall of the nave. This effigy features an ogee canopy made of light-yellow sandstone, richly carved, with tall sides adorned with miniature carved figures and a cornice.
There are memorial tablets for members of the Bowen, Tasker, Evans, and Neale families, including one for John Tasker of Upton Castle and Bombay, who died in 1800, crafted by William Williams, a mason from St Florence. In the northeast corner of the nave, there is a unique candle-holder shaped like a fist. Additionally, there is a fine Norman font featuring an arch and two half-arches on each face, a plain pillar, and a circular foot set on a square base.
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