Peninsula Papers Information and news for the communities of St Ishmaels, Hasguard, Robeston West, Walwyn’s Castle, Dale, St Brides and Marloes. Sand Art at Lindsway Bay. Picture by Jeff Taylor taken on 11th April. The Sand Art is created by Pembrokeshire artist Jon Foreman - search for Sculpt the World on Facebook or Google. This is quite a “rough and ready” design - they are usually much more formal and quite spectacular. He often uses Lindsway Bay as his canvas. His creations with shells and rocks are also truly wonderful . Papurau Penrhyn JUNE 2021 MEHEFIN Gwybodaeth a newyddion am gymunedau St Ishmael’s, Hasguard, Robeston West, Walwyn’s Castle, Dale, St Bride’s a Marloes. The Church in Wales Parishes of Dale, St Brides with Marloes, Hasguard with St Ishmael's, Walwyn’s Castle & Robeston West Parish PriestsPriests: Fr. Andrew Johnson 01646 636966 [email protected] Rev’d. Dr Rhiannon Johnson 01646 636966 Postal Address: The Vicarage, 172 Castle Way, Dale, Haverfordwest, SA62 3RN Rev’d Gaynor Ford 01646 693452 [email protected] Church Wardens Dale: Peter Morgan 636625 Harriet Bishop 636668 St Brides: Mary Lewis 636430, William Richards 636242 Marloes: Yvonne Evans 636251 St Ishmaels: Heather Phippen 636261 Walwyn’s Castle: Jayne Edwards 01437 781575, Kate Morgan 01437 781270 Robeston West: Gill Thorne 01437 890693, Geoffrey Harries 01646 692736 Baptist Chapels: Moriah --- Marloes Paul James 01646 636241 Aenon --- Sandy Hill Pastor: Jon Brewer 01646 279343 [email protected] LOCAL SERVICES SHOPS: Marloes Village Store and Post Office 01646 636968 Open: Monday 9-1, Tuesday to Saturday 9 - 4, and Sunday 9-12:30 MOBILE LIBRARY: The Mobile Library service is currently suspended but may be restarting shortly St. Ishmaels Burgage Green Layby - 10.50 am to 11.20 am Dale - Blue Anchor Way - 11.35am to 12.05am Marloes - Toilets - 12.15 am to 12.45 am Contact 01437 776126 or 07774 230200 (van) MOBILE POST OFFICE: Tuesday: St Ishmaels 14:00—15:00 Dale 15:15—16:15 Thursday: St Ishmaels 13:00—14:00 Dale 14:15—15:15 CONTACTS FOR HALL HIRE: FOR HIRE THE CORONATION HALL AND JUBILEE Marloes: Emma Truelove 07896 719409 SUITE DALE [email protected] St Ishmaels Sports & Social Club: Sports Club: 01646 636444 or Claire Sheil 07768 968016 Walwyns Castle Village Hall: BOOKINGS: WENDY KEHOE 01646 636721 Jean Rees 01437 929813 EMAIL– [email protected] Dear All, It is a great joy to have Peninsular Papers back and to be writing to you again. So much of grief and joy has happened in the months since I wrote last for all of us. You have been prayed for all the way through this crisis and I will continue to pray for your health and happiness as we continue to come out of restrictions. One strange side-effect of the pandemic for me is how small it has made the world. While I have been sitting here at my desk and chatting to people through the computer, it has made no difference at all if they are in the next village or half way across the world. A friend of mine in this country is ordering food deliveries online for her elderly parents who are shielding in India. The things she tells me make me grateful to live here and remind me that it is too soon to rejoice that the virus has been defeated. Another colleague is Palestinian by birth. I asked him what, in that terrible situation in Jerusalem, Israel and Gaza, we should be praying about. He asked me to pray that the power of hate-filled language will be broken, that politicians on all sides will not think they ‘win’ by inciting hatred and violence. And for me it has also made this world seem even more precious. Andrew and the dog are walking two miles a day as part of a virtual pilgrimage leading up to the big Climate Emergency Summit in Glas- gow in November. By then they will have walked the equivalent of all the way there. I am not capable of doing that walk any more so I am praying my way there. If you want to join in with either, the details are on the Diocese of St Davids website. So, as it is time to set sail into a wider world than the re- strictions have allowed us and on the stormy evening when I am writing this I am reminded of the Breton Fisherman’s prayer, which I pray tonight for all of us. “Protect me, dear Lord, for my boat is so small and your sea is so wide. Your sea is so wide and full alike of wonders and terrors, so protect me, dear Lord.” With every blessing, Rhiannon, Andrew and Gaynor Produced by the Church in Wales Parishes of Hasguard with St Ishmaels, St Brides with Marloes, Walwyns Castle, Robeston West and Dale A Forgotten Gem? This Summer the project to restore the Coates Carter reredos in Walwyn’s Castle Church and research the farming history of the area comes to an end. An exhibition has been put up in the church in the hope that regulations will soon allow more peo- ple to see it. There is also a Facebook page – Walwyn’s Castle Farming History. A reredos is an ornamental painting or carving behind an altar in a church. It is in- tended to draw the eye of the worshippers and focus them on the meaning and the mystery of God’s presence with us, especially in the Holy Communion. John Carter was born into a farming family in Norfolk in 1859. He added the name ‘Coates’ when he became an architect. As a young man he was taken into partner- ship with John Pollard Seddon, a member of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood and prestigious architect. Seddon had been working in South Wales with John Pritchard on the restoration of Llandaff Cathedral and had built up a business in the area, be- coming the Diocesan Architect for Llandaff. Coates Carter largely ran the Welsh side of the business. He moved to Penarth and built a home for himself at 20 Victoria Road and one for his mother and sister next door at number 22. He also designed the Red House, the Paget Rooms and many other buildings throughout South Wales. In 1908, for reasons never fully explained, Coates Carter moved his family and work to Prestbury near Cheltenham. This was all the more surprising as, from 1906 to 1913 he was working on what many consid- er his architectural masterpiece, Caldey Island Monastery. During the First World War he became the Honorary Local Secretary of the Central Committee of National Egg Collection for the Wounded. Once the war was over, he had steady work designing war memorials including reredoses. One exhibition dis- played 74 sketches for memorials he had designed, although most have never been identified. He lived a quiet life, keeping chickens and as churchwarden and honor- ary architect to his local parish church. In 1924, he received the commission to restore the medieval church at Llandeloy near St Davids. He worked on this for two years and refused to accept payment. At the focus of the church is a painted reredos unlike anything else Coates Carter had previously designed and almost certainly painted himself. Between 1924 and 1926 he produced three such reredoses, the other two being Walwyn’s Castle’s and one in the Fisherman’s Chapel behind the church in Angle. At the same time, he was also producing far more conventional designs for reredoses in other Pembrokeshire churches including Robeston West, Carew Cheriton, Narbeth, St. Thomas’ Haver- fordwest and St. Katharine’s Milford Haven. Coates Carter died in 1927. His last known work is designing the carved wooden reredos in St. Mary’s, Herbrandston. Rhiannon Secretary for the parish of St Brides with Marloes The church committee for the joint parish of St Brides with Marloes is seeking someone to fulfil the role of secretary, as Hilary Anderson is stepping down after 20 years. Duties would include the administration for the parish, attending church committee meetings (usually held quarterly), taking down and producing meeting minutes, providing commu- nications within the committee and generally overseeing paperwork, insurances and mat- ters of compliance. Hilary is very happy to provide a comprehensive handover of the files if that would be helpful. This is an unpaid, voluntary role but you would have the oppor- tunity to be involved in matters relating to your local churches and your community. Please contact either Yvonne Evans at [email protected] or Hilary Anderson at [email protected] for further details. ST. ISHMAELS MEMORIAL HALL The Community Council currently holds the proceeds from the sale of the Memorial Hall in St. Ishmaels in the Community’s bank account. These funds amount to around £40,000 At the last Council meeting it was decided to consult the members of St. Ishmaels community for their ideas concerning the use of this money for the benefit of the vil- lage. This is likely to be quite a long process which should culminate in a public meeting to vote on various suggestions received in the interim by the council clerk. It was also decided that the essential first call on the funds should be to create a new memorial to replace the tablet on the wall of the former hall. It is thought that by this, not only would the sacrifice of those who gave their lives be honoured by continued memorial in this way, but likewise the subscriptions which were raised from the villag- ers after the 1 st World War to build a hall in their name would not be forgotten.