St Elidyr's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 September 1997. Church.

St Elidyr's Church

WRENN ID
grim-pinnacle-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 September 1997
Type
Church
Address
St Elidyr's Church, Crunwere, Tenby, Amroth
OS grid reference
SN 186 107
Coordinates
51.76584, -4.62882
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St Elidyr's Church is a medieval building of uncertain date, with 19th-century additions and restorations, located within a churchyard accessed by wrought-iron double gates and a cobbled path. Adjacent to the gate is a stile in the wall, and beyond the church ruins of a small stone building stand in the northwest corner, with a well situated in a field to the north.

The church consists of a tower of moderate height with a northeast corner stair turret, a low-height nave, chancel, north and south transepts, a later south porch and north vestry. The tower and much of the original fabric are medieval, built with sandstone rubble masonry, with rusticated limestone quoins on the south side of the church. Slate roofs have coped gables, and a cross-finial adorns the porch. Lancet windows are simply designed. A slate monument on the east wall of the south transept is dedicated to John Howell, a non-juring minister who died in 1727 and was ejected from his living at New Radnor in 1691. The open arch of the porch features unusual rustic flowerhead motifs impressed into the render.

The tower is constructed from local sandstone in large courses and has crenellated parapets on corbels, with slit lights to the stairs and a string course at a low level. It features single bell-chamber openings with louvres on each face.

The chancel measures approximately 4 metres by 6 metres, and the nave measures approximately 12 metres by 7 metres. There is one step up to the chancel arch and another to the sanctuary. The chancel ceiling is constructed of timber boarding in a vault form, and the altar has a low, wide reredos installed in 1934. The east window consists of three lights and three roundels with stained glass, which is now in poor condition. Two plain windows are located in the south wall.

A single-chamfered chancel arch supports a modern rood, with similar arches leading to the transepts. The low-pitched nave roof is supported by collar-beam trusses, with intersecting trusses at the crossing. The nave roof is divided into three bays, and each transept roof into two bays. An octagonal pulpit is positioned on the south side. Post-war stained glass is present in two nave windows, including a representation of Broomylake farm. The tower base has a stone floor and a stone-vaulted ceiling.

Local climate

St Elidyr's Church 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow 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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