The Flying Boat Centre, Pembroke Dock - geograph

The Garrison Chapel is a

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to the

Royal Dockyard Royal Navy Dockyards (more usually termed Royal Dockyards) were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired and refitted. Until the mid-19th century the Royal Dockyards were the largest industrial ...

Pembroke Dock Pembroke Dock ( cy, Doc Penfro) is a town and a community in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, northwest of Pembroke on the banks of the River Cleddau. Originally Paterchurch, a small fishing village, Pembroke Dock town expanded rapidly following ...

Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...

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. It was designed by George Ledwell Taylor, Surveyor of Buildings to the

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, in the early 1830s and was completed in 1834–35. Originally, £7,944 was allotted in the 1829–30 Naval Estimates, but this was reduced to £4,000 by the Controller of the Navy Board. A year after it was completed, another £3,500 was provided to build galleries to accommodate the increased numbers attending and to create an additional entrance.Phillips, p. 21 From 1974 until 1986 it was used by the Pembrokeshire Motor Museum, but was then sold to a developer and fell into disrepair. It was compulsorily purchased by the county council in 2003. It has been rebuilt using

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funding from the

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and now houses th
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre
run by Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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External links

Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre website
Chapels in Pembrokeshire Churches completed in 1835 Grade II* listed churches in Pembrokeshire Georgian architecture in Wales Pembroke Dock {{Wales-church-stub