Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard cross socket in Llansantffraid churchyard
St. Bride's Minor, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 July 1998
- Locality
- Sarn
- Community
- St. Bride's Minor
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53941, -3.59178
- Cadw reference
- 20181
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
E of the church adjacent to the EW path through the churchyard.
History
Medieval cross socket unlikely to be in its original position as nearby ground has clearly been lowered and the socket is without the usual high stepped base, though traces of this latter may still exist in the churchyard. Churchyard crosses had a number of functions including acting as the focus for liturgical processions, designating the sanctity of the churchyard before individual churchyard monuments proliferated after the Reformation, and as a venue for itinerant preachers.
Exterior
A roughly square socket stone broached to hold an octagonal shaft a small portion of which is set within the socket.
Reason for designation
Included for its historic interest and for group value with the churchyard monuments and the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Ffraid aka St Bride, LlansantffraidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Monument to Morgan Morgan in Llansantffraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Williams monument and railings in Llansantffraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bowen/Roberts Monuments in Llansantfrraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.