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Preaching Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Cynfarch and St Mary

Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, designated on 19 May 2001.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Preaching Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Cynfarch and St Mary, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Date of designation
19 May 2001
Locality
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
Community
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
Unitary authority
Denbighshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
53.08937, -3.29366
Cadw reference
25208

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

In St Cynfarch and St Mary's churchyard, south of the church porch.

A C15 preaching cross, converted in c1800 to a churchyard sundial.

Of the preaching cross only the calvary and the bottom half metre of the shaft has survived: the shaft is let into a base block standing on two stone steps. On the reduced shaft a bronze sundial has been fixed. It is marked E[dward] Tavo, fecit, Chester (Tavo was an instrument maked in Eastgate Street). The date 1800 is carved into the stone at one side.

Listed for group value with the Church of St Cynfarch and St Mary.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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