Remains of Whitland Abbey including garden walls to S is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Remains of an abbey.

Remains of Whitland Abbey including garden walls to S

WRENN ID
silent-hearth-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
Remains of an abbey
Address
Remains of Whitland Abbey including garden walls to S, Llanboidy
OS grid reference
SN 207 181
Coordinates
51.83341, -4.60237
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The remains of Whitland Abbey include the minimal structures of the church, featuring pillar bases of the nave and low walls of the presbytery, located to the north of the main garden wall. This wall is a long stretch that partially occupies the site of the south wall of the nave, constructed from rubble stone with yellow brick coping, raised in red brick, and adorned with some clay tiles, creating a serpentine curve at the eastern end. Towards the western end, there is a rubble stone gateway with a segmental pointed door and a loop above, all under a coped shouldered gable. The wall is thicker to the right of the gateway, though it does not reach full height. To the left of the gateway, there are four buttresses. A stretch of eroded and low wall running south follows the line of the eastern front wall of the lay brothers' dormitory. The rear western boundary wall extends south to a small 19th-century square turret, which features a corbelled parapet at its southwestern end.

Local climate

Remains of Whitland Abbey including garden walls to S 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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