St Catherine's Chapel

Tenby, Pembrokeshire

Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids

OS Grid Ref.: SN13980027
Lat/Lng: 51.6703248001,-4.69149730093

Former chapel located on St Catherine's Island, close to Tenby, attested in the sixteenth century.

Remains of the chapel survived until they were demolished in around 1870, when a fort was constructed on the island.

Saints linked to this site

Katherine of Alexandria

More information

National Monuments Record

J. Cartwright, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008), 159

B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 560–1

Sources

A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 33

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