Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross in St Michael's Churchyard
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1953
- Locality
- Mitchel Troy
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78979, -2.73749
- Cadw reference
- 2087
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 centre of Mitchel Troy village, on the N side of the old road from Monmouth to Raglan
Exterior
Restored medieval cross-shaft. Red sandstone. Mounted on a square plinth of 3 steps and set in a low cavetto-moulded base, it is about 3m high and rectangular in section, tapering from 37x32cm at the foot, and has convex corners decorated with small shields alternating with ball-flowers so crudely-carved as to resemble little. skulls.
Reason for designation
Included as a unusual example of a medieval preaching cross, and for its group relationship with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Mitchel Troy Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.