Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross on Croes Lwyd Farm
Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Raglan, Monmouthshire, recorded as Cross (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Date of designation
- 4 April 1962
- Community
- Raglan
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.75839, -2.86994
- SAM number
- MM156
- Cadw record number
- 2392
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (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 of the medieval period standing in the garden of a private cottage. It comprises an elongated octagonal shaft 1.2m high and a maximum 0.4m wide with a worn, short-armed cross on top, carved from a single piece of stone. The cross head rises some 0.5m from a slight plinth and although rounded by erosion seems to have been roughly octagonal with roundels. Inside it is carved a simple cross. Part of the cross head is worn away on the northeast side, but it is well preserved on the southwest side. It has been suggested by antiquarian writers that the base of the cross lies elsewhere, the shaft and head having been moved to its present position; from the current proportions of head and short shaft it might be assumed that at least one additional section of shaft is missing.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of Christianity and is one of the few examples of a surviving cross shaft and head to have survived the Reformation in south-east Wales, if not necessarily in situ.
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 at Croes LwydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Broom HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Agricultural labourers cottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Raglan Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.