Pantasaph is a pilgrimage site and a spiritual centre of exceptional importance. The history of its creation is of particular interest, and the group of friary buildings and their setting have picturesque appeal. The T. H. Wyatt church is remarkable for its interior and assemblage of fittings by A. W. N. Pugin and others, testifying to the devotion of the donors, the convert Viscount and Viscountess of Denbigh, and the ascendant spirit of mid-nineteenth century Catholicism.  

The earliest record of Pantasaph is in 1536, when it was in the ownership of the Cistercian abbey of Basingwerk. When the abbey was dissolved, the last abbot Nicholas Pennant distributed some of the land amongst his relatives. Thus the lands at Pantasaph remained in the Pennant family for over 300 years, until 1846 when the sole heiress Louisa Pennant married Viscount Fielding, later 8^th Earl of Denbigh. They decided to build a church and rectory at Pantasaph in thanksgiving for their marriage, and work began in 1849 to a design by Thomas Wyatt. Although this was intended to be for the use of the established church, following the donors’ conversion in 1850, they transferred the ownership to the Catholics. This led to a hostile reaction, with the burning of Fielding’s effigy in Holywell and Mold, and to a lawsuit that the Church of England lost. The bitterness also spurred a subscription to build an Anglican church, which produced sufficient funds for two churches, one at Brynford and another at Gorsedd, both designed by Wyatt. Meanwhile at Pantasaph, Augustus Welby Pugin had replaced Wyatt with instructions to give the church a ‘Catholic finish’. Pugin correspondence records that on the whole he approved of Wyatt’s design, and made relatively few changes, but some of his furnishings were exhibited in his Medieval Court at the great Exhibition of 1850 before being installed. The church was opened on 13 October, 1852 and was entrusted to the Capuchin Franciscans. It was later consecrated by Bishop Ignatius Persico OSFC.

Construction of the friary began in 1858 and the first building took seven years to complete. In 1899 an extension was added, with other buildings including a printing room and farm complex. In 1926 a Pilgrim Hall was erected. In 1976 the farm was closed, freeing up the friars to do other work. A convent and orphanage was also established on the other side of Monastery Road, on land given by the Early of Denbigh. The convent buildings were erected in 1868 from designs by Edmund Kirby, who also provided the designs for the chapel added there in 1879.

The Pantasaph community established a number of missions across North Wales, including Flint, Mold, Saltney, Mostyn, Colwyn Bay, Penmaenmawr and Holyhead. In South Wales and Monmouthshire, the missions of Pontypool, Cwmbran, Abersychan, Blaenavon, Risca, Blackwood, and Abertillery were also of Pantasaph Franciscan origin. ‘The foundation of these parishes represents the heroic efforts made by the Capuchins of Pantasaph to save the faith of the huge multitude of destitute Irish who were shipped across to the coalfields and iron foundries of Wales after the ravages of the great famine. It is a lamentable fact that today one can meet, in the Rhondda Valley and elsewhere in South Wales, with many bearers of old Irish and Catholic names who are not Catholics but Nonconformists. The number of these would probably be legion had it not been for the work of the friars, who between 1852 and 1859 strove with zeal and self-sacrifice, and with a great measure of success, to remedy the religious plight of the immigrants’ (The Tablet, 11 October, 1924).

Pantasaph has been a place of pilgrimage for many years. In 1990 the original part of the friary was turned into a retreat centre. The original rectory became ‘Denbigh House’ and was used as a guest house. In 1999 the National Shrine of Padre Pio was opened in the friary grounds. In December 2017 the retreat centre was closed, but the church, shrine, grounds and café/shop remain open for visitors. 

Description

See list entry, below.

The church is built of random stone with sandstone dressings of matching colour. It has a nave with one side aisle, sanctuary, tower with stone spire, and south porch. It is in the Gothic Decorated style with Geometric bar tracery. The broad tower is at the junction of the nave and sanctuary and has a pyramidal spire which is more characteristic of the High Victorian period than the 1840s.

The open timber roof has main and secondary arch-braced trusses with heavy cusping of alternate design. The main trusses rest on carved stone corbels. The five-bay arcade to the south aisle has clustered shafts. The sanctuary is richly appointed and furnished with restored stencil patterning to the walls, encaustic tiled floor, and keel-vaulted roof which is boarded and panelled. The high altar has been brought forward, leaving the space at the east end for the choir, and for use by the friars for prayer. To each side of the east window are statues of St David and St Asaph below crocketed canopies, both designed by Pugin. The altar, which was designed by A. E. Purdie in 1893, is supported on four marble columns and has biblical scenes contained in quatrefoils. In the north wall is a recumbent effigy of the eighth Earl of Denbigh (1823-92) on a tomb chest also designed by Purdie and executed by Boulton & Sons. Pugin designed the Lady Chapel altar and to the right of the chapel, the statue of Our Lady and Child; and also the large octagonal stone font with emblems of the Evangelists. Pugin’s elaborate carved wooden rood screen has been lost, with only the suspended crucifix remaining. His baptistery screen has also been dismantled, although it was partly reused for a confessional in the south aisle and in the screen that connects it with the organ. The organ was originally in the choir loft, but is now at ground floor level. It has a fine wooden case by Henry Poyser. Beneath the Blessed Sacrament altar are relics of St Primitivus, a Roman martyr of the early Christian period, which were presented to Viscount Fielding by Pope Pius IX in 1851 when he heard about the donors’ conversion. The stained glass in the north windows is by Hardman, 1852, and the fine east window is of similar date. There are two pairs of characteristic Arts and Crafts windows by Harry Clarke of 1931-34.         

List descriptions

Church

Reference Number: 25240
Grade: II*  
Date of Designation: 25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment: 25/05/2001  
Name of Property: The Roman Catholic Church of St David  
Unitary Authority: Flintshire  
Community: Whitford  
Town: Holywell  
Locality: Pantasaph  
Easting: 316071  
Northing: 375991  
Street Side: N  
Location: Adjoining the R side of Pantasaph Friary and in the grounds.  

History: In 1846, Viscount Fielding (later the 8th Earl of Denbigh) married Louisa Pennant, heiress of Downing Hall. Both High-Church Protestants, they decided to have a church built in honour of their marriage. St David’s church, designed by the architect T H Wyatt, was started in 1849, the foundation stone laid by Lady Fielding. However, one year later, before the church was finished, the donors converted to Catholicism. A legal argument ensued and the courts agreed that the church should become Catholic. Money raised by public subscription throughout England and Wales was used to build 2 parish churches in lieu, at Brynford and Gorsedd. St David’s was completed and Pugin was brought in to provide a Catholic finish to the fittings and furnishings. His work included the altar, Lady Chapel, font, pulpit and rood screen. St David’s was opened in 1852, and in the same year, the Friary was established with Franciscan Friars of the Capuchin Reform. Underneath the altar in the Lady Chapel is a reliquary containing the remains of St Primitivus, a Roman martyr. These were donated by Pope Pius IX when he heard of the donors’ conversion. Some alterations have occurred to Pugin’s interior, including those by A E Purdie c1893. The altar has been moved and altered; the rood screen has been dismantled and the pulpit replaced, but the church retains a fine assemblage of High Gothic fittings.  

Exterior: Nave, chancel, S aisle, S porch, tower and spire in angle of aisle and chancel. Constructed of snecked stone under slate roofs with sandstone dressings, the windows with Geometrical bar tracery. Detail includes angle buttresses, a plinth, dentilled stone eaves cornice, raised copings and ornate cross finials. Sill band, except to the N side. The gabled S aisle is lower and narrower than the nave. It has a gabled porch offset to the L. Pointed-arched doorway with roll mouldings and ball flower ornament supported on attached shafts with foliage capitals. Dog-tooth enrichment to jambs; planked door with strap hinges. Small trefoiled light to E side of porch. Most of the windows are pointed-arched with 2 cusped lights and a trefoil or irregular foiled light above, the hoodmoulds with head end bosses depicting a man and woman. There is one window L of the porch, and 3 to the R, separated by angle buttresses. Three-stage tower surmounted by a stepped pyramidal spire, with a polygonal stair turret to the SE angle. Angle buttresses as elsewhere. The lower stage, inside which is a small chapel, has a 2-light window to the S side, as aisle. String course to the short 2nd stage which has a trefoiled lancet to the S side and a pair of similar lancets to the E. The 3rd stage of the tower is narrower with offsets and has an ornate eaves cornice with a band of blind trefoils. Louvre openings to each face with 2 cusped lancets rising from a central colonnette with a quatrefoil above and a quatrefoil frieze to the sill. Each face of the spire has a lucarne. Small gabled porch on S side of stair turret with angle buttress rising from its apex, which contains a pointed-arched doorway with planked door. Small stairlights to S and SE sides. Ornate spire to stair turret including tall gablets over blind or narrow trefoiled openings with attached shafts. The S side of the chancel is 3-bay, each bay separated by an ornate buttress with blind foiled motif under a gablet enriched with ball flower ornament. To the L is a pointed-arched entrance with several orders of mouldings and attached shafts. Underneath is a blocked doorway with Tudor-arched head. Above the entrance is a rose window. To the centre and R bays are pairs of tall cusped lancets with individual hoodmoulds with foliate end stops. Set-back buttresses to angles with gablets. A boundary wall runs E from the SE angle. Ornate 5-light E window with cusped lancets, with an irregular foiled motif under the arch head flanked by cinquefoils. The N side of the chancel has windows as S side, but the buttresses are plain and without gablets. The R bay has a shallow arched window opening. The W end consists of the gable ends of the nave and S aisle with angle buttress between. Ornate W window with 4 trefoiled lights and a heavily cusped rose. Small quatrefoil in gable above. The aisle has a 2-light window as elsewhere. Four windows to N side of nave, with angle buttress between the pairs. Friary building adjoining at right angles to the far L.  

Interior: Five-bay nave with cusped arch-braces on long wall posts which rest on large stone corbels bearing angels. Smaller alternating arch-braces, more heavily cusped, on foliated corbels at wall-plate level. Five-bay arcade to S aisle with double-chamfered pointed arches on clustered shafts, set diagonally, with ringed capitals and bases. High pointed chancel arch with several orders of chamfers and mouldings, the inner ones supported on short black marble shafts with foliated capitals and ringed bases. Doorway to N side of nave with similar mouldings and attached shafts, containing double wooden doors leading to friary buildings. Above, and lighting the corridor beyond, is a short shallow-arched window. Between and flanking the N nave windows are 7 arched stone recesses containing the stations of the cross in high relief. The remaining 7 stations are to the S aisle. The chancel has a keel-vaulted roof, boarded and panelled with foliate bosses. A crucifix is suspended from the ceiling and was originally attached to the rood screen. The stone altar is in the centre of the chancel (having been moved from the rear). The table is supported on 4 marble columns with foliate capitals. Panels to rear bearing biblical scenes in relief. There are now choir stalls around the E end. Flanking the E window are marble statues of St David and St Asaph under canopies decorated with pinnacles and crockets. These are by Pugin. Heavily cusped rere arches to windows. Door to L of N side to confessional and aumbrey to far R. The S aisle has a roof of closely-spaced scissor-braces. To the R side of the entrance is a stone piscina with trefoil-arched head. Shallow double-chamfered arch on short shafts to E, leading to the Lady Chapel which is under a vault beneath the spire. On the R of the archway is a statue of mother and child beneath a canopy with pinnacles. The marble altar table is on red marble columns with ringed capitals and bases. Beneath the table, behind glass, is a reliquary of wooden open-work with 3 sexfoils to the front, under a hipped rooflet with frieze to ridge. In the reliquary are the bones of the Roman martyr, labelled ‘Corpus Sancti Primitivi M.’ Decorative marble reredos, the central part covered by a banner and flanked by statues under highly ornate canopies. Large octagonal stone font to W end of nave (by Pugin) supported on circular marble shafts around a central stem and on an octagonal base. Each face of the font bears the emblems of the Evangelists in relief, including winged beasts, angels and foliage. Wooden pews with plain moulded bench ends. Small C20 wooden pulpit to SE of nave, and pipe organ to SW in a fine wooden Gothic-style case, by Henry Poyser, Chester. On the S side of the organ is a fragment of the former baptistery screen. In the N wall of the chancel is an effigy of Rudolph William Basil, 8th Earl of Denbigh (1823-92), erected by his 2nd wife, Mary. It was designed by Purdie and undertaken by Boulton & Sons. The effigy is under an ornate vaulted and ribbed canopy, the triangular head with crockets and pinnacles, the depressed arched opening with cusping and foliate bosses. Black marble shafts to reveals supporting statues of a man and woman. The front of the tomb has 5 bays divided by black and red alternating marble shafts, each with a trefoiled blind arch. That to the centre bears a coat of arms flanked by symbols in quatrefoils including birds, a cross and a tree. Further R is a sepulchre to Lord and Lady Fielding, consisting of 2 cusped blind arches containing brass tablets inside a frame with Tudor flower enrichment and a triangular head. To the R is a small brass tablet to their daughter, Hilda, who died at 1 year. Fine stained glass to E window depicting the life of Christ including the Crucifixion. The N nave windows have stained glass bearing saints, by Hardman, 1852. That to the R is dedicated to Thomas and Elizabeth Kent. Stained glass to S aisle windows, mainly C20, that to the W by Harry Clarke 1931-4. Further stained glass in chancel. The church retains a fine collection of High Gothic fittings, including encaustic floor tiles and deeply-coloured stencilled wall coverings.  

Reason for designation: Listed grade II* for its exceptional High Gothic interior and assemblage of fittings, which are an excellent expression of Roman Catholicism in the mid C19. Also listed for its historic interest and for group value with the friary.  

Friary

Reference Number: 25241
Grade: II*  
Date of Designation: 25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment: 25/05/2001  
Name of Property: Franciscan Friary  
Unitary Authority: Flintshire  
Community: Whitford  
Town: Holywell  
Locality: Pantasaph  
Easting: 316067  
Northing: 376019  
Street Side: N  

Location: Set back from the road in grounds and approached by driveways. The Church of St David adjoins to the R. A linking range to the L joins the friary with the guest house and includes the entrance to the buildings.  

History: A friary was established at Pantasaph in 1852 following the opening of St David’s Church. St David’s was started in 1849 as an establishment church, but became Roman Catholic on the conversion of the donors, Lord and Lady Fielding. They decided that they wanted a community of Franciscan friars of the Capuchin Reform, who at that time had no permanent base in Britain. The first monks lived at the Guest House, originally intended to be the vicarage, and the friary buildings were constructed from 1858-65, possibly to the designs of T H Wyatt, and under the influence of Father Seraphim of Bruges. The friary became the mother house for the Capuchin order in Britain. A wing was added to the E in 1899.

Exterior: L-shaped range in Collegiate Gothic style with turret in angle. Two storeys with attics and basements. The church to the S forms the 3rd side of a courtyard which is open to the W. Constructed of snecked grey stone with sandstone dressings under steeply pitched slate roofs, with some fish-scale tiles. Detail includes gables over upper storey windows, a string course at 1st floor level, buttresses with offsets and raised stone copings to gables. Perpendicular-style tracery. The S front of the E-W range is articulated by 4 gables over the 1st floor windows, which are flat-headed with square hoodmoulds under relieving arches. The L window is 3-light, each light with a Tudor-arched head. The others have 2 similar lights flanking a blind panel. Some small-pane glazing is retained. Small pierced quatrefoils to gables. The lower storey is divided into 8 bays by tall angle buttresses. Each bay has a tall 2-light window under a segmental-pointed head with a transom and heavy cusping to the lights. Two-light openings to basement storey with flat heads. Diagonal buttress to SW angle of range. The wide gable end has windows as front to the lower storey, to the L and centre. To the R is a blank shield with tracery above in a square stone surround. To the 1st floor is a flat-headed 4-light window with cusping and a transom. Beneath is a frieze with 4 blank shields with a 5th centrally placed above the window. Two-light window to its L with flat head and transom. The attic is lit by a 2-light window under a flat head, the lights with cusped ogee heads. Small quatrefoils flanking window. Stone end stack with 3 diagonally-set shafts. Two-stage tower in angle of ranges supporting a tall octagonal spirelet on stepped offsets. String course between stages and diagonal buttress to angle. Narrow trefoiled lights to W side at ground and 1st floor levels. Small cross-angle windows between tower and E-W range, that to the upper storey corbelled. In the S wall at 1st floor level is a statue within a trefoil-arched niche. Towards the top of the tower to the S and W sides are clocks, each within a square stone surround under a hoodmould. The octagonal spirelet has a louvre opening to each face with cusped ogee tracery. Pyramidal roof with lucarnes. The adjoining N-S range faces W and the roof line steps down to the R. To the L at ground floor level are windows to the centre and R as E-W range, with a single light to the L in the same style. The string course continues. Above is a gable offset to the R over a 3-light 1st floor window. To its L is a small 2-light window beneath the eaves. Two skylights to roof pitch. Stone ridge stack. The lower part to the R is 3-window and has no string course. Central pointed-arched doorway with planked door, flanked by small 2-light windows, the lights with trefoiled heads, under segmental-pointed arches without hoodmoulds. Similar window above door, flanked by single lights. Gabled attic dormer to centre, also with 2-light window. Small ridge stack to R end. The rear of the E-W range has 5 gables over the 1st floor windows (as front). Between the 3rd and 4th gables from the L is a lateral stack. To its L, the bays are further divided at ground floor level by tall angle buttresses. Each narrow bay has a tall flat-headed 2-light window with transom and hoodmould under a relieving arch. To the R of the stack are 2 identical windows but with no dividing buttress. A single-storey lean-to adjoins the R bay, which is part of the linking range. A metal fire-escape staircase rises over the lean-to to a late C20 door which replaces the R light of the 1st floor window. The E gable end has small single lights to the 1st floor and an ornate 2-light window to the attic as W gable. Adjoining at ground floor level is a single-storey link to the addition of 1899 which has a 3-light window under a segmental-pointed head to the S. To the L of the gable end is the rear side of the N-S range with higher part to R and in the same style. This includes a gable offset to the L over a 1st floor window (as front), and to its R a 4-light window. Doorway below with Tudor-arched head and a 2-light flat-headed window to its R. Two skylights to roof pitch. Additional range to E has been altered and is 2-storey with an attic clerestorey which may be a later addition. The 2 bays to the R have been rebuilt in red brick. The attic has 3-light uPVC windows. The 1st floor has corbelled lateral stacks, now truncated, and flat-headed 2-light windows. Sill band and angle buttress to L. The lower storey windows are closely spaced and 2-light under segmental-pointed heads with transoms. The rear side has a tall lateral stack offset to the R and truncated stacks to the L and centre. Four angle buttresses with offsets. Flat-headed windows to ground and 1st floors, irregularly set.  

Interior: Partial access to interior. A corridor runs through the building from the W, towards the SE and into the church. It has quadripartite vaulting to the ceiling and a tile floor.  

Reason for designation: Listed grade II* as a fine High Gothic friary, of considerable historic interest, and a rare example of this building type. Part of a group with the Church of St David and the guest house.  

Guest House, including linking range

Reference Number: 25242
Grade: II*  
Date of Designation: 25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment: 25/05/2001  
Name of Property: Guest House including linking range at Pantasaph Friary 
Unitary Authority: Flintshire  
Community: Whitford  
Town: Holywell  
Locality: Pantasaph  
Easting: 316024  
Northing: 376014  
Street Side: N  
Location: Set back from the road and approached by driveways. The linking range, which includes the main entrance, joins the guest house with the friary, which is to the R.  

History: The Church of St David, begun in 1849 to the design of T H Wyatt, was built by Lord and Lady Fielding in honour of their marriage. The Guest House was intended to be the vicarage, and is also by Wyatt. However, the church became Roman Catholic on the conversion of the donors, and a vicarage was no longer required. Lord and Lady Fielding established a community of Franciscan Friars of the Capuchin reform in 1852, who lived in this building before the friary was completed in the early 1860s. It subsequently became the guest house. The range linking the friary and guest house was probably constructed at the same time.  

Exterior: Three-window 2-storey range in Gothic style facing S. Two-gable rear wing with single-storey L-shaped range adjoining NW angle. Constructed of snecked grey stone with sandstone dressings under slate roofs with stone stacks. Detail includes quoins, a string course to the 1st floor, stone eaves cornice, kneelers, raised copings to gables, and windows consisting of grouped cusped lancets. The front range has a projecting stack to the L end and diagonal buttresses to the angles. Central chamfered doorway with shallow-pointed arched head under a hoodmould, containing a late C20 door with overlight. To the L is a 4-light window with transom, and to the R a canted bay window, also with transom, and with parapets. The upper storey has a 3-light window to the L, a 2-light window to the R and a further 2-light window to the centre under a gablet containing a small trefoil. The E gable end of the front range has a pair of 2-light windows to the lower storey with transoms. Centrally-placed above is a dressed stone oriel window under a hipped stone-tiled roof, with a pointed-arched window with 2 cusped lancets and a trefoil. The E rear range has a ridge stack with 4 chimney pots. Three-light window with transom to lower storey with a single light to its R, and 3-light window to 1st floor under a gablet. No openings to W gable end of front range. The W rear range has a lateral stone stack, and a small lean-to porch with planked door under a segmental head to L and a cusped lancet to the R. Three-light window with transom above. The small L-shaped range to the L has a projecting stack to the W end and a 4-light window facing S, the lights with shouldered heads. No openings to W side. The rear of the building is 2-gable with a narrow gablet between and has cusped lancets to the upper storey and flat-headed windows below. The rear of the W range is slightly advanced, with a 3-light window to the upper storey and 2 x 2-light windows below. Single light to each storey under gablet. The gable of the E range has no openings, and the single-storey linking range joins the wall beneath. The friary and guest house are linked by a low single-storey range which runs at an angle between them, joining both to the rear. It has a full-height gabled porch to the centre which forms the entrance to the friary. Wide moulded Tudor-arched doorway under a hoodmould, containing late C20 partly glazed doors with overlight. Diagonal buttresses to angles, kneelers and raised copings and tall finial to gable apex. In the gable is a statue of a man holding a crucifix within a trefoil-headed niche. This is flanked by blank shield motifs. Two-light windows under flat heads to each side of porch, the lights with cusped ogee heads. Small bell cupola to ridge between main range and porch. Small central gabled bay to rear of linking range with end stack. To the R is a 2-light window, the lights with segmental heads. To the far L, the range continues as a lean-to against the rear wall of the friary. Planked door with Tudor-arched head with 2-light window to L and further 2-light window with transom to R under a gablet.  

Interior: No access to interior at time of inspection.  

Reason for designation: Listed grade II* as a fine Gothic-style vicarage, which later became part of a friary. An important part of the group at Pantasaph.  

Entrance piers and flanking walls

Reference Number: 25252
Grade: II  
Date of Designation: 25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment: 25/05/2001  
Name of Property: Entrance piers and flanking walls at Pantasaph Friary  
Unitary Authority: Flintshire  
Community: Whitford  
Town: Holywell  
Locality: Pantasaph  
Easting: 316027  
Northing: 375991  
Location: Set back from the road and bounding an area of tarmac and gardens in front of the friary. The entrance is to the SW.  

History: Probably contemporary with the friary buildings, which were constructed from 1858 to 1865.  

Exterior: A pair of square-section stone piers with dressed stone quoins and ornate capstones. These have 4-sided gablets with mouldings, their faces bearing stylised blind trefoils. The flanking rubble stone walls have 2 tiers of stone tile copings. The R wall runs E to the SW angle of St David’s Church, whilst the L wall runs NW and terminates close to the SE angle of the guest-house with an end pier in the same style.  

Reason for designation: Listed for group value with Pantasaph Friary.  

Archway to the Way of the Cross

Reference Number: 25243
Grade: II  
Date of Designation: 25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment: 25/05/2001  
Name of Property: Archway to the Way of the Cross at Pantasaph Friary  
Unitary Authority: Flintshire  
Community: Whitford  
Town: Holywell  
Locality: Pantasaph  
Easting: 315972  
Northing: 376068  
Street Side: N  
Location: Set back to the NW of the friary buildings, and forming the access to the Way of the Cross and The Grotto.  

History: The Church of St David, begun in 1849 to the design of T H Wyatt, was built by Lord and Lady Fielding in honour of their marriage. A year later, the church became Roman Catholic on the conversion of the donors. Lord and Lady Fielding established a community of Franciscan Friars of the Capuchin reform in 1852, and the friary buildings were completed in the early 1860s. This archway leads to the Way of the Cross, a path which zig-zags up the hill passing tiny chapels containing Stations of the Cross and terminates at a Calvary on top of the hill. The chapels were erected by the monks in 1875 on the feast day of St Francis, and the archway is likely to be contemporary.  

Exterior: Tall archway of rubble stone, the pointed arch of stone voussoirs. Rough stonework to extrados with crucifix to apex. Large square-section jambs, slightly advanced to front with arched heads. They contain niches with triangular heads which contain statues of St Francis and St Anthony. Adjoining the jambs to the front and at right angles are rough stone walls which flank an entrance walk. The archway is plain to the rear.  

Reason for designation: Listed as a prominent garden structure with a significant religious context and for group value with friary and Church of St David.  

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