Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penallt Churchyard Cross
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 24 April 1952
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.79309, -2.69441
- SAM number
- MM146
- Cadw record number
- 2383
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 which stands in the churchyard on the south side of the church. The structure is 2.1m high in total and sits on a set of three steps which are 1m in height and 3m square at the bottom Above the steps is a large block, 0.5m in height and 0.6m square, at its base are large rounded stops in the corners above which it is octagonal. Set in the block is an octagonal shaft 0.6m in height and c0.2m in diameter with chamfered corners at the base.
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
- Cross in the Churchyard of Penallt Old Church (St Mary's)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Thomas Prichard in Churchyard of Penallt Old Church (St Mary's)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Penallt Old Church (St Mary's)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate and Stile to the Churchyard of Penallt Old Church (St Mary's)Miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.