Sailors' Chapel, Angle

Sailors' Chapel, Angle
Sailors' Chapel, Angle
Location in Pembrokeshire
Coordinates: 51°41′02″N 5°05′13″W / 51.6840°N 5.0869°W / 51.6840; -5.0869
Country Wales
Denomination Church in Wales
History
Dedication St Anthony
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade I
Designated 14 May 1970
Architectural type Church

Sailors' Chapel, Seamen's Chapel or Fishermen's Chapel is a Grade I listed building in the churchyard of St Mary's parish church, Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The chapel is dedicated to St Anthony.

The chapel is a small, single-cell vaulted building above a raised and vaulted crypt. It was founded in the 15th century (1447) by Edward de Shirburn a "knight of Nangle". It was restored in 1853, and again by Elizabeth Mirehouse in 1862, and rededicated in 1929. Originally a receiving place, or charnel-house, for the corpses of drowned sailors, it became a chapel of rest in the 20th century.[1][2]

Constructed of coarse masonry under a modern tiled roof with a Celtic cross finial, the chapel has Victorian stained glass windows, one of which depicts the miracle of Christ walking upon the sea. There is a stone altar.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "British Listed Buildings: Sailors' Chapel, Angle". Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. ↑ The Benefice, Rev. Jones, accessed 30 August 2008
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