Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross in the Churchyard of the Holy Cross
Devauden, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1955
- Locality
- Kilgwrrwg
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Devauden
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68217, -2.77911
- Cadw reference
- 2026
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
About 10m south of the Church of the Holy Cross
History
This cross is largely undatable. Most churchyard crosses are C15 but a C11 date has been suggested for this one. It is of unusual form, but it may of course have been re-erected in the C15 anyway.
Exterior
The cross lacks its steps, if it ever had them. The socket stone is half buried in the ground and bears a monolithic shaft of rectangular cross section with an integral head of simple form, carved from local conglomerate.
Reason for designation
Included for special interest as a medieval churchyard cross which, unusually, is still complete.
The cross is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, MM104(MON).
Nearby in the register
- Kilgwrrwg Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. Thomas a Becket's Churchyard Cross, WolvesnewtonCrossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.