Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross in Churchyard of Church of St. Illtud
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40788, -3.48767
- Cadw reference
- 13258
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the south side of the Church of St. Illtud and about 20m from the south porch.
History
Part medieval, probably C15; part early C20. In c1919 the upper part of the shaft and a canopied cross were added to the remains of the medieval cross base, to the design of G E Halliday, Diocesan Architect (Faculty granted 7 June 1919), and in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hill Gaskell who had died in France in 1916.
Exterior
The remains of the medieval work comprise the lower part of the shaft and an octagonal stone base with pyramidal stops, both shaft and base mounted on six square stone steps, diminishing upwards in size. The crosshead has, on one side, a representation of the Crucifixion and, on the other, a representation of St Illtyd, the Patron Saint. The 1830 Gastineau print shows the shaft without its canopied head.
Reason for designation
Included as a medieval cross with additional historic interest as a memorial to WWI.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Walls & Gates to Church of St IlltudReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Chantry Priest's HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Church of St IlltudReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Chantry HouseChantryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.