Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Preaching Cross at St. Issell's Church
Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 7 May 1997
- Locality
- Churchton
- Community
- Saundersfoot
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72009, -4.70488
- Cadw reference
- 18443
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
In the churchyard of St Issell's at the N side of the church, on sloping ground.
Exterior
A mediaeval preaching cross, in sandstone, about 1.5 m in height, consisting of a worn shaft with arms on a socket-stone and plinth. It is on a base of three roughly-constructed steps. The shaft and the arms are of octagonal section. At the foot of the octagonal section are broach-stops and the lower part of the shaft is square.
Reason for designation
Listed as a significant surviving example of a medieval preaching cross, and for group value with st. Issells's Church.
Nearby in the register
- St Issell's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Rear gates to Saint Issell's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Principal entrance gates to Saint Issell's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- North gates to Saint Issell's churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.