Dale - St. James.

This Perpetual Curacy was established prior to 1291. Described as 'Ecclesia de Valle,' it is valued in the Taxatio at £5 6s 8d (£5.33), the Tenths thereon payable to the King being 10s 8d (£0.53). It was part of the possessions of the Priory of St. Thomas, Haverfordwest, and by the year 1594 it had come into the hands of the Crown.---Owen.s Pem.

Dale appears in the list of churches appropriated to the Priory of St. Thomas, Haverfordwest, and is valued at £10 per annum.---Valor Eccl.

Under the heading ' Not in Charge ':---Dale Curacy (St. James), David Allen, Esq., £6 certified value.---Bacon's Liber Regis.

On 9 Aug., 1890, a faculty was granted for the restoration of the Parish Church.

On St. Anne's Head, in Dale Parish, formerly stood a chapel dedicated to St. Anne. It was in ruins in Queen Elizabeth's time, and as will be seen by the following extract from George Owen's Description of Milford Haven, it formed an important landmark for Mariners :---[Mariners] ayme their course till they see St. Annes Chappell being an ould chappell decayed having a rounde towre builded like a windmyllne or pigeon howse of stonne, as I esteeme yt xx (20) foote highe the towre and chappell standeth soe mounted that it is seene first of any land markes, and by this they knowe where to finde the entrance into the harborowe [Milford Haven] for it standeth within three flight shootes west of the havons mouth.---Owen's Pem, Pt. II., p. 552. Fenton states that one of the old light-houses was built on the site of St. Anne's Chapel.

Vicars.

Graham Davies, Ó 2001.
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