Archaeologia Cambrensis (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... ItrlfJBlflgia Cumlitntra. NEW SERIES, No. XL-JULY, 1852. ON THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE. (Read at Tenby.) I Have acceded with especial pleasure to the request that I should prepare for the present meeting some account of the highly important architectural antiquities of the district in which we are met, as I would venture to consider it as stamping the approval of the Association upon my previous undertakings of a similar nature. Two years ago, at the time of the Cardiff Meeting, I first commenced an examination into the ancient buildings of Wales, in a paper on the Antiquities of Gower, which I have since followed up in the pages of the Archceologia Cambrensis, by a series on those of Monmouthshire. With all these I should wish my present remarks to be taken in close connexion, as I regard them as detached portions of one subject; as contributions to a great whole, the crude idea of which has occasionally floated through my mind, and which the successive meetings of this Association may possibly in time enable me to accomplish, a connected treatise on the ancient architecture of the Principality, or at least of its southern counties. As far as my inquiries have at present gone, I should ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. III. Y be inclined to set down the churches, and especially the towers, of southern Pembrokeshire, as the most perfect specimens of a general type extending along the whole coast from the Wye to St. Bride's Bay. All the strictly native structures along this line--I should mention that I can in no part speak of the country very far inland, and that of Caermarthenshire my knowledge is extremely limited--agree in some remarkable points, and form a general class as distinguished from those of other parts of the kingdom; a...