Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Cross at Church of St Illtyd
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mamhilad, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, designated on 18 July 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Mamhilad
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72511, -3.00729
- Cadw reference
- 25560
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 30m south west of the Church of St Illtyd.
History
The remains of a probably late C15 preaching cross.
Exterior
Cut stone cross base and shaft now much decayed. Square socket stone with broached corners. Square shaft going to octagonal with the shaft progressively more spalled and finally broken at the top. The surviving monument is about 1.5m in height.
Reason for designation
Included as the historic St Illtyd's churchyard cross which, though fragmentary, retains a basic medieval structure.
Nearby in the register
- West wall to churchyard of Church of St Illtyd with stile, gatepiers and postboxReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St IlltydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tea Caddy Tomb with railings in Churchyard of Church of St. IlltydCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 62Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.