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Fort St Catherine is a nineteenth-century coastal defence fort located on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. Constructed during the period of Victorian military expansion and modernisation of Britain's defences, the fort represents the strategic importance placed upon protecting Welsh coastal waters from potential foreign naval threats during the nineteenth century. The fort exemplifies the design principles of Victorian-era military engineering, incorporating the characteristic features of contemporary coastal fortification architecture. As a scheduled ancient monument under the care of Cadw, the site preserves an important example of post-medieval military heritage in Pembrokeshire.
Fort St Catherine is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE450. View the official record →
Fort St Catherine is a nineteenth-century coastal defence fort located on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference PE450.
Fort St Catherine dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a fort. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Fort St Catherine is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE450.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Black Rock Quarry Lime Kilns (1.7 km), The Watchtower (1.7 km), Sculptured Stone Cross in Church (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Fort St Catherine's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Fort St Catherine stands on Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is sedimentary rocks.