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1 Gazetteer
A Abercastle Abercych Abereiddi Ambleston Angle and Bangeston
B Bayvil Begelly Blackpool Mill Bletherston Boncath Boulston Brawdy Bridell Broadhaven Burton Parish
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Abercastle - Abercastell (Jottings)
Boat and shipbuilding was carried on.
Suspected by
The island has signs of very early occupation. Near by is Longhouse farm on which Carreg Samson is located, a set of New Stone age cromlechau from approximately 3000 BC.
The
Abercastle: A coastal hamlet, at the end of a drowned valley from which schooners sailed carrying corn and other farm produce to the West Country and returned laden with merchandise that was sold at the local shop, aptly called "Bristol Trader". Limestone brought from south Pembrokeshire was used to build a water mill, storehouses and a tavern, and to burn in limekilns, one of which survives, before being spread on the land.
Ynys y Castell may have been an early Christian site. Upon it is Bedd Bys Samson, "the grave of Samson's finger", the finger with which he lifted the capstone on to the upright pillars of Carreg Samson, the chambered tomb at Longhouse farm above the bay. The tomb is an outstanding example of a passage grave built by Neolithic people moving along this coast from about 2500BC.
A quiet little bay with a sandy beach, good for bathing.
Abercych (Jottings)
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
A village
in the vale of Cuch, where Pwyll,
prince of Dyfed, according to the Mabinogion, chased
away the hounds of the king of Annwn, the Celtic
Hades, and set his own upon the stag they were following. For this he did heavy
penance by having to change place with that monarch for a year and a day. Long
the home of wood-turners who, until recent times, pursued their art in a manner
almost unchanged since the Early Iron Age. In the garden of the Nag's head inn
the only coypu ever recorded in
(See also the topic of Craftsmen of Wales - Woodturning)
Abereiddi (Jottings)
On north coast of
St David's
18C Beacon on the headland to guide ships into the Harbour, lime kiln which was still in use in the 1930's, at one end of beach Ty Powdwr (Gunpowder store) at the other.
The
A row of cottages, now much ruined,
were the homes of industrious quarrymen who quarried slates that were taken by tramroad to Porth-Gain on the
other side of the headland known as
Abermawr (Jottings)
Stranded bay with shingle bank formed during the storm of 1859 when over 400 ships were lost including the Royal Charter.
The remains of trees which are
visible at low tide are part of a sunken forest, the lost
Was once to be the terminal for Isombard Kingdom Brunel's railway which was abandoned, traces of pier abutments and the bed of a railway may be still seen.
Lime kiln.
The Abermawr Cable Station
The First Cables
were laid in 1862 by the Cable Ship Berwick. It was over 60 miles long and ran
from Abermawr to Wexford. A second cable was laid in
1880 from Abermawr to Blackwater
in
Cromlechau at Parc y llyn: About 300 yards SW of the farmhouse of Parc y llyn, and 800 yards SSE of a spot in the adjoining parish of St. Dogwells where another cromlech is known to have stood, are the remains of at least one and probably two cromlechs. A capstone, 7 foot by 5 foot, appears to rest upon two supports; these are partly covered by accumulated soil, but show a height of at least 2 ft. The capstone is aligned NE-SW.
In the hedge to the east and largely concealed by it, is what may have been the capstone of another cromlech, but failing examination with a spade it is impossible to say more about it. Both remain standing upon a slightly elevated platform of 180 ft. circumference - Visited 13th Oct. 1914.
Earthworks at Castell Fleming - "Ad Vigesimum"
This enclosure measuring 303 foot from E to W by 294 foot from N to S, occupies commanding ground 500 foot above sea level which slopes slightly to the south. The lines of the northern and southern banks are fairly traceable as is also the southern half of the western bank but the other half and most of the eastern side have disappeared. At no point does the bank rise above one foot. There are no indications of an outer ditch or trench. The enclosure, about two acres in extent, is traversed by a main road which divides it into two practically equal parts. The site has long been under cultivation, with the exception of a triangular plot immediately south of the road in the SE quarter.
The superficial resemblance of the plan to that of a Roman station led Fenton and Hoare to identify it with the Ad Vigesimum of the "Itinerary" of Richard of Cirencester not at that time known to be a forgery. Fenton saw Roman brick and cement and heard of "a large flag that had been found near with some inscription on it perhaps a milliary" A writer in Arch. Camb. 1879 p 318 says that the "encampment" was then "full of Roman brick".
Some trial trenches dug by Professor R C Bosanquet and Dr. R E M Wheeler in Dec. 1922 showed that the earth rampart and ditch were of Roman type and had enclosed at least one building of timber with slate roof and clay floor. These remains were exposed in the triangular plot mentioned above which had been preserved from the plough by piles of stone removed from adjoining ground and was covered with dense growth of bracken. Several pieces of flue tiles and bricks such as were used in hypocausts were found above the surface of a clay floor 2 1/2 inches thick. The part that was laid bare showed remains of two raised clay hearths and a posthole about 3 inches in diameter. The floor rested on a bedding of cobbles, and below this was an earlier occupation layer partly floored with clay resting on some 7 inches of fine gravel. A number of hexagonal roofing slates of characteristic Roman type were found on the upper clay floor and some fragments occurred in and below it. The minor finds included two bones and iron nail a fragment of glass and a dozen pieces of pottery of which five were "Samian". The pottery was found below the upper clay floor and points to the early part of the second century AD as the first occupation.
(Fentons Tours i 333; Hoare Giraldus Cambrensis i cxlvi; Lewis Top Dic Wales 1845 i 27; Arch. Camb. 1879 p 318; Haverfield Mil Aspects of Roman Wales 112 (in Trans Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion 1908-9)
NB. As to the name Castle or Castell Fleming or Flemish it may be suggested that the first word "castle" has been taken from the fortification which has been proved by the excavations of Professor Bosanquet and Dr Wheeler to have been a small Roman settlement. The second word "Flemish" or "Fleming" doubtless has reference to the race or family of the person into whose possession the "castle" may have passed and who may actually have used it as a defensive post in the days when the colony of Flemish introduced into the county by Henry I were obliged to make the position good by strenuous fighting. One of the leaders of the Flemish was a knight called Wiz or Wizo termed the Fleming. His chief residence was at Wizo's tun which soon became altered to Wiston where there is a fine castle mound. From Wiston it is evident that Wiz ruled directly or exercised suzerainty over a wide extent of country comprising much of the cantrefs of Dougleddau and Rhos. He was a patron of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John and it said by some authorities to have founded the house of that order at Slebech. It is certain that he or his son Walter endowed the knights with the tithes of several parishes one of them being Ambleston.
Wallis Rath: This earthwork has a
horse shoe appearance but it probably originated as an irregular square with
considerably rounded corners. The northern bank has
been cleared away The ground is fairly level both within the enclosure and
around it. It has a diameter of about 80 ft. and the bank on the south
side where it is seen at its best is from 3 to 4 ft. high with an exterior
fall of about 5 ft to a shallow ditch. Within the enclosure are
slight elevations as of foundations and the site may possibly have been that of
a small moated dwelling. Immediately south of the
earthwork is a farmhouse named Pen y castell -
Visited 13 Oct 1914.
The
Diocese and Archdeaconry of St David's; Rural deanery of Dungleddy
This Church consists of Nave 42ft x16 1/2ft chancel 30ft x 28ft and western tower 19 1/2ft x18 1/2 ft. In 1906 the nave and chancel were rebuilt on the original foundations none of the earlier features being retained. The tower is of two storeys the lower being vaulted. The stair-turret projects at the north east angle. The tower has a slight batter to within two feet of the ground. The battlements and low spire were repaired in 1779. The entrance to the church is through the tower. At a restoration about 1833 the original font with its circular shaft and square base were sold by public auction but in 1903 it was returned to he church. The bowl has an interior diameter of 18 inches. It is of the Norman type but is entirely unornamented. In the porch is a stone bowl which may have served as a stoup and at another time as a domestic mortar. It has four equidistant projecting lugs or handles.
The
church was probably among the Dungleddy deanery
churches granted to the abbey of St. Peter Gloucester by a knight named Wiz the
Fleming about the year 1114 (Hist st
Cart Mon S Petri Glous. ;
Rolls ed i 228, 262-6). A few years later these
churches were transferred to the priory of
Reynerston (locally Rinaston) Chapel: This was a small chapel of ease to the parish church which is now disused and become a ruin all that remains are the walls of a small chamber 30ft x 13 1/3 ft. There was a stone vaulted western porch 10ft x 9 1/2 ft probably with a room over. The walls of the building are from 3 to 4 ft high. A burial took place within the church in 1789 a few years before its abandonment. The ruins stand within the yard of Rinaston Farm in the centre of an enclosure 120ft x100ft which is still known as "the graveyard". The walls of this enclosure have been cleared away so that the whole of the burial ground is without shelter or protection and trees grow freely upon and about the ruins. In a charter of 1230 the chapel is described as "capella de Ville Reineri". Visited 13 Oct 1914
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Parc Castell
Parc Carreg
Greystone
Parc Greystone
The names of these sites suggest an historical origin and where an archaeological discovery may at any time be made.
Chapel?: On a field at Woodstock called Parc Capel are the outlines (about 40ft x 20ft) of the foundations of a small building which may have been an early chapel. So far as the ruins can be aligned the building seems to have stood directly E - W and a slight depression suggests the existence of a north door. The surrounding area is locally called "the Burial Ground" but nothing is known nor does any tradition exist of interments having been met with at any time.
Immediately NE of the site and practically adjoining it is the earthwork known as Woodstock Ring - Visited 13 Oct 1914
Church Meadow: This is the name of a field on the farm of Scollock West about 1 mile SE of the parish church. No tradition explains the name which indeed is not now in use. It may at an earlier time been part of the Glebe. Visited 13 Oct 1914
Scollock Cross: Here the word "cross" merely marks the meeting and crossing of roads. Visited 13 Oct 1914.
The
old parish churches of South west Wales Mike Salter
The low 15C west tower with a vault and spire was repaired in 1779. The 13C nave and chancel were mostly rebuilt in 1906. There is a Norman Font.
Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments (RCAM) 1925
Church rebuilt on original foundations 1906
Reynaston: This tiny 13c chapel in Ambleston Parish was abandoned c1800 and is now a ruin in a farmyard - there seems to have been a room over the vaulted west porch.
Woodstock Chapel nearby was the first Methodist Chapel not to be consecrated by a Bishop
Ambleston. St. Mary. -Pembrokeshire Parsons
This
benefice is a vicarage, formerly in the presentation of the prior of the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, to whom it was granted by Wizo
and Walter his son, and Walter son of Walter, which grant was afterwards
confirmed by Peter de Leia, Bishop of St. Davids, who
succeeded to the see in 1176. Wizo was a Fleming, and
built and owned
Amleston Vicaria:Ecclesia ibidem unde Johannes Yeim's viearius es collacione Preceptoris de Slebeche tenet ibidem vicariam habens terciam pattern fructus et emolimentorum dicte ecclesie que valent comtnunibus annis iinj". Inde solut' in visitacione ordinaria quolibet tercio anno viijd. Et remanet dare 7s. 4d. Inde decima 7s. 11d.Valor Eccl.1535
Under heading 'Livings Discharged:' Ambleston alias Amleston V. (St. Mary). Ordinario quolibet tertio anno 8d. Habet tere. part. fruct. commun. any The Prince of Wales. Preceptor de Slebeche olim Propr. Clear yearly value #7. #30. King's Books, £3 19s. 4d. Bacon's Liber Regis.
The
grant of Ambleston by Wizo, his son, and grandson, to
the Knights of St. John, mentioned above, comprised all the churches and
chapels in their fee of Dungleddy, and among them
were the chapels of Rinaston and
'there is a chapel of ease called Rinnaston, distant from the parish church about a mile served by the Vicar.' Diocese Book of St. Davids for 1715.
The chapel of Rinaston was in ruins in 1904; only portions of the main walls then remained, and one of the walls was merely held together by the roots of a good-sized tree which had grown on the masonry. The chapel was a small edifice, and was situated at the northern end of the farmyard of Rinaston Farm; it consisted of a nave and chancel. Within the nave is a tomb with an inscription to the memory of David Morse of Reynaston, who died on 30 July, 1785 aged 67, and his wife Martha, who died on 11 Jan., 1789 aged 64. From this it would appear that the chapel was probably abandoned at the end of the 18th century.
On 30 June, 1906, a faculty was granted for the restoration
of
Date Vicar
1408 David Kellan.
1409 Jan. 15. Lewis David vice David Kellan, resigned.
1490 Jun. 15. John Glovers
1534. John David.
1535-6 John Yeims.
1554 Dec. 19. Peter Lyde.
1633 Nov. 16. David Williams.
1675 Dec. 2 David Rice, vice David Williams. deceased.
1716 Aug. 23. Samuel Phillips, vice David Rice, deceased.
1730 Jan. 3. Thomas Phillips, vice Samuel Phillips deceased.
1749 Aug 17. David Morris vice Thomas Phillips deceased
1764 Nov. 19. James Evans, vice David Morris. deceased.
1782 Jul. 31. Morgan Evans, vice James Evans. deceased.
1822 May. 2. David Hughes Saunders, vice Morgan Evans, deceased.
1824 Mar.11. John Pugh vice David Hughes Saunders, deceased.
1866 Feb. 3. Peter Phelps, vice John Pugh, deceased.
1903 May. 23. Thomas Jones, vice Peter Phelps, deceased.
Jottings on the History of South
Pembrokeshire
ANGLE plus Bangeston B H J
Hughes
A single street village near sea level at western end of the Castlemartin peninsular
There is evidence of pre
First records using the name date from 12 century and it was sometimes recorded as Nangle.
Earthworks and Monuments according to The Royal Commission
on Ancient Monuments (RCAM)
The Devil's Quoit, or
What must have been an unusually interesting earthwork has in recent years been much disturbed through various causes, military, agricultural and natural. Fortunately it was examined at the end of the 19th century by Lieut. Colonel W. Ll. Morgan, R.E., an ex-Commissioner, who has written of it:
A bank and ditch, 200 feet long from
cliff to cliff, cuts off an area of about half an acre from the mainland
opposite to
Probably the first is the correct solution, as Fenton (Tour, 404), quoting from George Owen's (1602) that 'the remnant of a tower stood in this further enclosure in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and that the tradition is that this was a place of retreat for the new Norman settlers to save themselves from the natives.' The rampart mentioned above is 6 feet high (or rather was, for it has mostly been destroyed by the erection of a War Office building) across the tongue, with 8 feet fall to a ditch 5 feet wide, the ground rising to the front. The entrance is near the east end.
The surface of the larger area or promontory is dotted with depressions, which, in the absence of spade examination, have every appearance of hut circles. Some of these might profitably be excavated.
This promontory camp is situated
midway between West and
Roman finds - Nov.-94 -
At Angle - Roman silver coin (value #12) AD79 on Mirehouse land - understand it was given to Mirehouse
Note: Finders Grandfather found 6 Roman coins West Angle beach many years ago.
Also 4 hammered coins between Angle and Freshwater West
Historic
Buildings
Castle: (6 in. Ord. Surv. sheet, Pem. 38 NE.; lat. 510 41' 5", long. 50 5' l6").
Separated at high tide from the church and churchyard are the remains of a moated dwelling which has been frequently termed a Fortified Rectory." upon part of the ruins a Small house has been built which is called "Castle Farm," (first recorded in 1729) and by this name the site is locally known.
On plan the site gives a square enclosure, protected on its north and west sides by a well-preserved wet moat, on the south by an inlet of the sea, and on the east originally by the third side of the moat, which, however, has been here filled-in to form a road At the south-west corner stands the shell of a tower of the "peel" type l5 feet square, and some 80 feet high. This is the part of the structure which is illustrated and described in Arch. Camb. (1868, ITI, xiv, 77) as a "Fortified Rectory." The north-east angle was protected by another and possibly similar tower, of which the vaulted undercroft still survives in use as a cartshed. The south-west tower is of four stories, the lowest vaulted; all the floors have fallen, as has also the saddle-back roof. The first floor was reached by a flight of forty-seven steps.
'The three upper storeys have fireplaces, that in the middle chamber being placed across an angle. In the ground floor chamber is an opening, probably intended provide access to the cellar beneath; in the wall outside are corbels which may have carried a hoisting arrangement; all of which point to smuggling activities at possibly a late date. A prominent feature on the four sides of the exterior is a row of large corbels which possible supported a wooden galleys entered by a doorway still traceable at the head of the stair. The moat is stone-faced and in good preservation, the water being supplied by a small stream.
Immediately adjoining the filled-in side of the moat are the remains of an outbuilding with oven and circular chimney on square base, probably an addition, when about the end of the 17th century an inn called the "Castle Inn' occupied the enclosure Over the entrance to this ruined dwelling is a stone bearing a human face in high relief. This is known locally as the Gerald stone (Gerald de Barri Giraldus Cambrensis, vicar of Angle c. AD 1200). The stone is probably the terminal of a hood-moulding from an earlier house on the site.
A Jacobean glass bottle found in the
moat is preserved in the
In the adjoining field is a fine columbarium, with domed roof and several rows of nest holes.Visited, 8th June, 1922.
East Block-house: On the cliff overlooking
Since this report the remains have deteriorated considerably. - Visited 8th June 1922
Ruined Almshouse: To the immediate south of
houses in the
NOTE. The building goes by various names. Fenton (Tour, 402) quotes a letter from Canon Lewis of St. Davids to Browne Willis, dated 12th January, 1719: "There is at Angle yet standing entire, an old square building said to have been a nunnery." Of a nunnery at Angle, however history is silent, nor do the remains point to such an establishment. "The Old Rectory" is another name locally used, in common with that given to the building on the north of the church. Whatever its original purpose, there can be little doubt that it is the building thus alluded to in the MS. Diocese Book of 1715, preserved in the Diocesan Registry, Camarthen - "There is . . . a ruined almshouse at Angle and #30 left by the will of Griffith Dawes, Esq. of Barneston [Bangeston] near 40 years since, but no part thereof is yet paid by his administrators towards the repair thereof."
Bangeston
According to RCAM
The 'mere shell of a mansion" seen by Fenton (Tour, 404} has practically vanished, and in its grounds immediately to the north-east now stands a coast-guard station. The site of what was once the fishpond is easily found.Visited, 8th June 1922
The earliest record of the Benegers of Bangeston appears to be in 1172, when a branch of the family
took part with Strongbow in the Irish Invasion. There
is an Irish saying that anything very astounding 'beats Banagher.'
Could that have arisen from any feats performed by the Benegers?
One Ralph Beneger of Bangeston
rebuilt
Griffith Dawes of Bangeston is the next owner of whom we hear, though how it
became his does not appear, possibly by marriage with a Beneger
heiress. He was the son of Henry Dawes, by Lettice, daughter of William Walters
of Roch (her brother's daughter, the famous Lucy Walters, went to France and
there met Charles II., by whom she became the mother of the ill-fated Duke of
Monmouth). Henry Dawes was the son of Griffith Dawes, whose widow Joan,
daughter of Richard Fletcher, married Henry White of Henllan, near
Pwllcrochan (now a ruin), who was Sheriff in 1592.
Henry, or Harry Dawes, father of
Griffith Dawes of Bangeston, appears, according to Lewis Dwnn,
to have lived at Castlemartin. This fits in with the theory that Bangeston came into the family by
On June 16, 1686, Griffith Dawes of Bangeston, or, as it is put, 'of Banaston in the Parishe of Nangle, Esqre., 'Thomas Lort, of Eastmoor, Manorbier, and Francis Dawes of Pembroke, gent., with Devereux Hammond, James Lloyd and Francis Smith of 'Tenbie,' gents., as representatives of Alice Bowen of Gloucester spinster bought from Thomas Williams of St. Florence, for #290 10s., the land of Carswell (at St. Florence), then occupied by Richard Rowe, 'for the relief of the poor and aged of Tenbie.' The farm, to this day, belongs half to the Trustees of the Tenby Charities, and half to the Rector and Churchwardens of St. Mary's, Tenby.
Griffith Dawes of Bangeston, as before stated, had an only daughter, Ann, who
married Griffith, son of Henry White of Henllan.
Matthew Campbell appears to have got into money difficulties which obliged him to sell Bangeston; the valuable lead roof was stripped off, and everything removed that could be turned into money, and the bare walls soon assumed the look of ruin and decay. This must have happened after 1789, as Richard Gough, in an Addendum to Camden, mentions Bangeston as then occupied, and Fenton in 1811 laments its ruined state and recalls its remembered hospitality, therefore the dismantling must have occurred some time between these two dates. Fenton also mentions its 'Norman founder; if this is correct he must have founded an older house than the ruin we now see, whose long, unfortified facade, large oblong windows and general sumptuous style point to much later and less troubled times, when the fear of the enemy was not constantly before mens eyes. The walled enclosure immediately in front of the house, now overgrown with trees, and a carpet of daffodils in spring, called the Bowling Green. There is a large kitchen garden with magnificently high walls, an artificial pond in the wood adjoining, and traces of an old watermill; also an avenue of beeches, leading away to the westward, still recalls the glories of the old house.
Matthew Campbell was a great friend of Fenton's, and entertained him at his house in Pembroke on his Tour in 1811.
Bangeston, with Hall, Angle, and the bulk of the Angle property, was bought in 1805 by John Mirehouse, Esq., as already stated, from Lord Cawdor, and remains in his family to the present day. Bangeston being a ruin, Hall became the dwellinghouse, but at the time of purchase the family resided (as Lord Cawdor's tenants) at Brownslade, and did not take up their residence at Hall until 1864.
The
The church consists of nave (50 feet
by 20 feet), chancel (30 feet by 14 feet), north transept (192 feet by 13
feet), west tower (19 feet by 16 feet) and a modern south porch. The tower
opens to the nave by a pointed arch, it is of three storeys with a pointed
barrel vault to the lowest and a domed roof to the belfry, the stones being
further covered with tiles, a not uncommon feature of the church towers of
The Church was heavily restored in 1853 by R.K. Penson but no actual account of the work done could be found.
This benefice was formerly a rectory
as well as a vicarage. The rectory was vested in the Priory of Pembroke, which
was a cell to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin at Seyes
in
The
Ecclesia de Angulo Ecclesia parrochialis ibidem ex collatione abbatis Sancti Albani unde Willielmus Benett est inde rector. Et habet ibidem rectoriam et glebam fructus et emolimenta ad reetoriam spectan' que valent communibus annis xijli. Unde sol' in quadam pensione priori de Pembr' annuatim xxiijY iiijd. Et pro visita-tione ordin ari a quolibet tercio an llo x iij d. Et in procur-acionibus et sinodalibus archidiaconi quolibet anno vg d Et remanet clare #10 s- l0d. Inde decima.Valor Eccl.
Vicaria de Angulo:Ecclesia vel vicaria ibidem ex collacione episcopi Menevensis unde Willielmus Yevans est vicarius et habet ibidem unam mansionem. Et valet in toto pro parte dicti vicarii per annum iiij". Inde sol' pro procuracione quolibet anno xijd. Et remanet clare 7gs. Inde decima 7s. 11d.Valor Eccl.
Under the heading 'Livings remaining in Charge': Angulo alias Angle alias Nangle R. (St. Mary). Pens Pri. Pembr. #1 3s. 4d. Vis. Ordinari. quolibet tertio anno 1S. 1d. Archidiac. quolibet anno sS. gd. Abb. St. Albani olim Patr. The Prince of Wales. King's Books, #10 10s. 0d., #100. Yearly tenths, #1 1s. 0d. Bacon's Liber Regis.
Under the heading ' Livings Discharged ' Angulo alias Angle V. (St. Mary). Pro. quolibet anno 1s. Mans. eum part. decim. Rector Propr. Bishop of St. Davids. Clear yearly value, #26. King's Books, #3 19S. 2d.Bacon's Liber Regis.
'There is a ruinated
chapel in which no divine service is performed, called St. Marys, within
half a mile of the parish church; a ruinated
almshouse and #30 left by the will of Griffith Dawes Esq. of Barneston [Bangeston] near 40
years since, but no part thereof is yet paid by his administrators towards the
repair thereof.'Diocese Book for 1715. The site
of this chapel is at
On 10 Sept., 1853, the parish schoolroom of Angle was licensed for divine service during the restoration of the church.
On 5 Aug. 1886, the vicarage of Angle was merged in the rectory by an Order in Council, whereby the sinecure Rectory was suppressed as from l0 April, 1885.
Browne Willis in his list of
churches (see Paroc Wall.) mentions a chantry dedicated to St. George as being dependent on
Rectors
1200 Gerald de Barri
1325 Mar 9 Thomas de Cotyngham.'
1325 Mar 21 Howell ap Gryffith.
1383 William de Faryngton.'
1383 Jul 18 William
Wright, vice William de Faryngton.
1383 Sep 29 John Wayte.
1405 Mar 21 John Ufford.
1428 Henry Welles,
1446 Dec 20 Res Philip, Bach.Decrees.
1472 Apr 17 Alexander Kyng
1486 Robert Smyth, vice Alexander Kyng, deceased
1535-6 William Benett.
1554 John Griffith.
1580 Richard Meredith.
1591 Dec 22 John Farrar, M.A.
1604
1621 Dec 21 Paul de la Ravier.
1622 Apr 20 Francis
White.
1638 Aug 11 John Ganry de la Champnolle.
1684 Jun 15 Joseph Wilkers.
1702 Mar 18
1714 Mar
5 Christopher
Baines, M.A. vice
1719 Mar 4 Robert Eyre, M.A.,14 vice Christopher Baynes, deceased.
1775 Jun 9 Thomas Mills Hoare, M.A vice Robert Eyre, deceased
1783. May 23. Thomas Birt, vice Thomas Mills Hoare, deceased
1815. Apr. 27. Frederick Henry Neve, M.A., vice Thomas Birt, deceased.
1844. Jan. 19. William North, M.A.,l8 vice Frederick Henry Neve, M.A., deceased.
1876. Dec. 15. Charles Gresford Edmondes, vice William North, ceded.
1896. Jan. 15. William I+loyd Harries, M.A.,17 vice Robert Weeks, deceased, who died on
19 Nov., 1895, the vicarage having been merged in the rectory by order in Council 5 Aug., 1886, whereby the suppressed as sinecure rectory was from 10 April, 1885.
1902 Nov
25 Edwin John Wolfe, vice
William Lloyd Harries instituted to Llanbedr, Ys-tradyw.
1907 Nov 2 William Garner, MA.,17 vice Irvin John Wolfe, resigned on 1st April, 1907.
Vicars
1402 John Kydde.
1402 Sep. 23. Robert Salmon, vice John Rydde, exchanged.
1422 Nov. 18. Henry Gayrstang.
1424 Jan. 29. William Hodonet
1441 John Baker
1491 Mar. 23. Symon Pecoke, vice John Baker, resigned.
1495 Nov. 25. William Cornysh.
1534 William Jeven
1554 May 9. James Esmunde.
1565 July 18. John Butler, vice James Esmonde, deceased.
1661 Thomas Westbie, M.A.
1662 Oct. 15 John Wonnacker.
1667 Apr. 8 Thomas Price, vice John Wonnacker, resigned.
1675 Mar
4 Riehard
1691 John Catlin.
1703 Jan. 23. Charles Williams.
1755 Jun. 25. John Williams, vice Charles Williams, deceased.
1784 Dec. 18. John Higgon, BA., vice John Williams, deceased
1787 May 3. David Davies, vice James Higgon, deceased.
1804 Aug. 23 James Hicks, vice David Davids,resigned
1817 Jan. 20. Thomas Dalton, l3 vice James Hicks, deceased.
1859 Mar. 2. John Carne Pocock, vice Thomas Dalton, deceased.
1868 Apr. 21. Robert Weeks, vice John
Came Pocock, resigned
Registers are held in the NLW
baptism from 1784
marriage from 1755
burials from 1784
The earliest Bishops transcripts 1685-7
1851 Census of Religious Buildings
Rev. Thomas Dalton (who was also vicar of Warren and Castlemartin) records that
Average congregations
(12 months): morn. 100 to 160 + 42 to 45 scholars; aft. 100 to 160 + 42 to 45 scholars.
Remarks: The Parish of Angle comprises a Sinecure Rectory with a Good Glebe House & Garden, with three fourths of the tithes (Agricultural) leaving the Resident Vicar or Incumbent one fourth with 3i acres of Glebe. No habitable House of Residence Id without paying a high rent to he Proprietor and the performance of the whole duties of the Parish. The Population consists chiefly of Fishermen with their families including farm labourers' families employed by the Farmers in the neighbourhood or otherwise.
Thomas Dalton. Vicar.
Lewis: sinecure rectory and discharged vicarage; rectory rated at #10. 10, of net annual value of #157 with glebe of 20 acres and a glebe-house; vicarage rated at #3 19s 2d, endowed with #600 royal bounty, of gross annual value of #80: patron, Bishop of St. David's: one fourth of the tithes appropriated to the vicarage, and the remainder to the rectory.
1 service in
English.
Incumbent: legally not resident. There are
no non-conformist chapels; but according to the 1851 census of Religious
buildings Thomas Harris of
I am a Baptist Home Missionary
having not, as yet any chapel erected, therefore do preach in a cottage and in
the open air. We have no
Chapel: In the burial ground north of the church is a small detached chapel (15 feet by 12 feet), beneath which is a chamber, probably an ossuary; both have plain vaults.
The chapel, a little fisherman's chapel built in 1447 is entered by a western doorway with a plain pointed arch, and approached by steps, has at the east end a square-headed window of two trefoiled lights, and on the south a similar light. The stone altar is said (Arch. Camb., 1880, IV, xi, 842) to have come from St. Twinnells church. In the south wall is a plain piscine. At the west end of the north wall is an empty tomb recession the floor opposite to it is a much-worn full length uninscribed effigy of an ecclesiastic, probably the one noted by Fenton (Tour, 401) as being then 'in the churchyard almost covered with the shard." The undercroft has a plain vault entered from the east end by a pointed doorway, and is lighted by two small quatrefoils on the north and south sides.
On the south side of the churchyard is a plain cross standing upon a calvary of three steps; it has been restored.
Angle: St Mary Parish of Castlemartin "The Church has small fisherman's chapel above a crypt and with small stained glass window showing Christ walking on the waters"
"Standing in the S/E Corner of
Angle churchyard there is a little chapel 15'x12', now known as "the
Fishermans Chapel". Dedicated originally to St. Anthony it replaced s
a small single chamber over a vault built in 1447 by Edward de Shirburn. A tomb recess lies empty on one side, and a priest's effigy on the other. It was built by
the Shirburn family as a chantry
[a chapel where mass could be said for the departed]. Its vaulted undercroft was intended as an ossuary [a repository for
bones]. [A similar chapel stands in the churchyard at Carew, and there are
traces of others in the area. They make an interesting link with
St Marys Chapel and Well: On the northern shore of the parish, at a point about half a mile north of the village of Angle, are sites called on the Ordnance sheets Chapel and Chapel Well, where stood a ruinated chapel in which no divine service is performed, called St. Marys within half a mile of the parish church " MS .Diocesan Book 1715). No trace of the building remains. It stood within a small circular enclosure formed by a bank which at the beginning of this century was about 2 feet high (Pem. Arch. Survey). This is now barely distinguishable, nor are there any signs of burials. The well has been covered and a pump introduced. It would appear that there was a road or track to this site as there are records dated 1595 and 1596 referring to St Marys well road.
St. Anthonys Chapel: On the
Ellens Well: This is marked on the Ordnance sheet as being on the cliffs half a mile east of Chapel Bay It could not be traced, nor any information obtained about it.
Globe Hotel: is first mentioned in records in 1871 when it was kept by George and Maria Griffiths. The present Georgian style Globe Hotel was converted from two houses in 1904 used as a military convalescent hospital in WW1 and in WW2 military personnel were billeted there.
Dates
Broomhill 1272
East Blockhouse 1578
The Hall 1526 also referred to as
the Court House 1602
According to Francis Jones
ANGLE, The Hall of.
Fenton recorded a local legend that three co-heiresses decided each to build a residence at Angle: one built a castle, the other 'a very handsome building' in the village, and the third built 'a mansion a little way out of the village, to the south-east called the Hall which appears in its day to have been very respectable and belonged till of late years to a family of the name of Kinner, a name that still exists in the village. The Kinners were engaged in trade and farming at Angle and Haverfordwest, and intermarried with families like the Voyles, and Walter of Roch. In 1587 Sir John Perrot was lord of 'the manor of Hall place in Nangle'. The herald, Dwnn, in 1613 recorded the pedigree of 'William Kiner off the Hawl off Angel The family continued at the hall for nearly two more centuries; John Kinner was assessed at four hearths in the Hall in 1670; and William Kinner was mayor of Pembroke in 1703. The house is described in 1739 as 'The Hall alias Court House in Angle'. In 1786 William Kinner was owner-occupier of Hall lands while John Hook Campbell owned a part of the same lands. Early in the 19th century the Hall was purchased by John Mirehouse of Brownslades and became the main seat of that family.
Notably an improving landlord and an enterprising farmer, the new owner was also a JP, and in 1810 High Sheriff. He improved the Hall as a residence which his descendants through the female line still occupy. The Tithe Schedule 1841 describes John Mirehouse as owner of 'Hall Manor', with George Thomas as farming tenant there, one of the fields being known as 'Kiners meadow'.
The estate eventually passed to R B Levett who had married a Mirehouse daughter and there son R W B Levett took the surname Mirehouse in 1864. R. W. B. Mirehouse of the Hall was High Sheriff in 1886 and owning an estate of 3,450 acres.
Hardings Hill 1522
Hubberton (Overton,) 1582
Middlehill 1272
Studdock 1592
West Pill 1595
Old Windmill 1298
Historic
Events and Records
1170 April Henry II sailed from
"The Nangle" on his expedition against
Gilbert de Angulo
joined in the Pembrokeshire conquest of
1171: "Among the Norman French
Knights of Pembrokeshire who took part in the descent upon
1173 - 6: Gilbert and Jocelyn of
Angle rewarded for their service in