Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanglydwen Churchyard Cross
Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Date of designation
- 6 February 1952
- Community
- Cilymaenllwyd
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.90793, -4.65516
- SAM number
- CM160
- Cadw record number
- 2795
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
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of a free standing cross-shaped slab probably dating to the early medieval or medieval period, set against a yew tree in the churchyard. The cross is 1m high, 0.6m (max) wide x 0.2m in breadth. The shaft is sub-rectangular in cross section and has rounded corners. A cross with wheel head is incised on the west face . The incised lines are quite clear and those on the shaft continue below the ground surface.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of Christianity. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A cross may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate at St Cledwyn's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St CledwynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Archway to drive, DolwilymMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pont Llanglydwen (partly in Llanboidy Community)No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.