St Barnabas's Church

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included as a good C19 Anglican church, constructed of predominantly local materials, in the Early English style. History: Built 1862-3 at the expense of Earl Cawdor, to designs by David Brandon of London, architect, by the builder, James Rogers of Tenby. It cost 2,000. Exterior: Mid to late C19 Anglican church, in early English style, by D. Brandon. Constructed of dressed local stone, with steeply pitched, banded, Pembrokeshire slate roof with raised, coped gables. Bath stone dressings to narrow lancet windows. Raised sill band and plinth. Wooden bell-cote to nave. Shorter, lower, apsidal chancel. Nave has 5 bays of lancets, separated by stepped, sloping buttresses, with light trefoiled Gothic heads and drip mould hoods, terminating alternately in ornately carved human heads or florets. Gable fronted S porch with pointed-headed Gothic arch to S, with splayed moulding to arch and jamb. Similar raised string course and small buttresses beneath to sides, near angles. Pitched, banded Pembrokeshire slate roof with raised, coped gable. Belfry to W of nave, of timber construction with pierced wooden side panels consisting of trefoiled Gothic heads beneath small tripartite arcade of spandrels and steep, slated spirelet. Small pointed-headed openings to spire sides with similar Gothic trefoiled heads and bearing small decorative cast iron finials with interlacing circles and pointed heads. Similar, larger finial to apex, terminating in narrow cross. Bipartite W window with lights separated by stone columns. Narrower chancel has similar lancets and butresses, with one light to each face of the apsidal end. Small lean-to vestry to N concealing one bay. Similar stone work, but with slated roof on a gentler pitch. Small bipartite window to N with sandstone d

From Cadw under OGL v3.