Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Cross at Church of St Mary
Llangan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 July 2003
- Locality
- St. Mary Hill
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llangan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50303, -3.50282
- Cadw reference
- 81315
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 churchyard beside the main path.
History
Late medieval, probably C15, with some repair and replacement socket stone and shaft of 1887. Unusually it retains a possibly original medieval carved head.
Exterior
Built of white limestone ashlar. Square cross-base of four diminishing steps. Replacement socket stone with broach stops. Replacement broach stopped shaft, square going to octagonal, with a neo-classical cap topped by a possibly original and certainly medieval carved head.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine churchyard cross having group value with the adjacent Church of St. Mary.
Nearby in the register
- Cross in St Mary's ChurchyardCrossunder 1 mi
- Chuchyard Wall of the Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ringwork & Bailey at GelligarnRingwork and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.