Sailors' Chapel, Seamen's Chapel or Fishermen's Chapel is a Grade I
listed building in
Angle, Pembrokeshire
Angle ( cy, Angl) is a village, parish and community on the southern side of the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The village school has closed, as have one of the two pubs, the village shop (with a post office) a ...
,
Wales. The chapel, which is dedicated to St Anthony, is located in the churchyard of St Mary's
parish church.
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.
[The Benefice]
Rev. Jones, accessed 30 August 2008
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.
References
Angle
Chapels in Pembrokeshire
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