Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Cross, Church of St Bridget
St. Bride's Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1999
- Locality
- St Brides Major
- Community
- St. Bride's Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46326, -3.59303
- Cadw reference
- 21767
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
Located on the N side of the Church of St. Bridget, to the E of the porch. The platform is built into the hillside which slopes down to the N.
History
C16 preaching cross. Pilgrims knelt in prayer on the stone steps, and farm workers are said to have sharpened their sickles on them. Said to have been damaged during Cromwell’s time. Restored in 1985.
Exterior
Stone churchyard cross on large 6-step platform. Heavy flagstone caps to steps with moulded edges. The base of the cross is square with deeply chamfered top angles. Polygonal tapering shaft with broach stops, surmounted by an orb with mouldings and small foliate bosses to underside.
Reason for designation
An exceptionally well preserved example of a medieval preaching cross. Group value with the church.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 174.
Nearby in the register
- St Bride's Major Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Church of St BridgetReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn Sion Presbyterian ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Croes AntoniCrossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.