Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross in churchyard of the church of St Catwg
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 September 2001
- Locality
- Cwmcarvan
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76366, -2.75872
- Cadw reference
- 25772
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 20m S of the W end of the church.
History
The base is probably later medieval; the cross modern.
Exterior
An unusually large and strongly-built base of a churchyard cross, with a modern replacement cross. Built of large roughly-dressed rectangular blocks of stone. Almost 4m square, with 5 steps up to a square 2-stage pedestal, the upper stage octagonal with bulbous stops.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- St. Catwg's Churchyard Cross, CwmcarfanCross baseunder 1 mi
- Church of St CatwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cwmcarvan CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn range to E of Cwmcarvan CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.