St John, Tenby

St John’s (listed as St John’s United Reformed Church and schoolroom) is a Grade II church on the corner of South Parade and Warren Street, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, now used by a local ecumenical partnership.

Overview

Cadw records a Congregational church of 1867–68 by Paull and Robinson of Manchester, in Early English style, successor to a first chapel in Lower Frog Street. The builder was James Rogers of Tenby. The schoolroom behind was extended with three classrooms in 1872 by the same architects; the upper stage of the tower and broached spire were added in 1907–08 by E. Glover Thomas of Tenby, probably to the original design. The fabric is yellowish stone with paler Bath stone dressings and quoins, under slate roofs. The gabled facade faces South Parade, with cross-gabled aisles and a three-stage tower with broach spire in the angle of the east front and north aisle. Cadw includes the building as an ambitious and prominent late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century nonconformist church, with group value with the adjacent manse. Coflein gives the grid reference SN1320600542.

Further Information

• Cadw listed building 6286
• Coflein: St John’s English Congregational Chapel, Tenby
• British Listed Buildings: St John’s URC and schoolroom, Tenby