Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity
St. Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Marcross
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- St. Donats
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.41021, -3.55275
- Cadw reference
- 13304
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 path to the church door.
History
Medieval, probably late C15 for the cross remains and probably C18 for the sundial conversion.
Exterior
Limestone base and lower part of the shaft of a churchyard cross, capped by a bronze sundial. Square medieval base with a large roll moulding at the top and, embedded in it, a much smaller square medieval base with stops at the angles and rising out of it, a truncated octagonal medieval cross-shaft. The bronze sundial at the top is inscribed as being the work of J King, optician, 2 Clare Street, Bristol.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as the relic of a medieval cross, and for its group value with the Church of the Holy Trinity.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Wall, Gatepiers and Gates to the Church of the Holy Trinity running along the roadReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Free-standing Outbuilding at Village Farm incorporating remains of Marcross Castle and sited on SWAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.