Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, Portskewett
Portskewett, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 13 August 2002
- Community
- Portskewett
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.58995, -2.72452
- SAM number
- MM315
- Cadw record number
- 3909
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 in the churchyard of St. Mary's church, Portskewett. The cross base comprises five deep steps of conglomerate blocks 4.07m square at ground level surmounted by an square/octagonal socket-stone 0.85m wide by 0.59m high with large, straight-cut stops rounded at the outer corners. The octagonal medieval cross-shaft survives to a height of 0.96m, is 0.32m wide at the base, tapering to 0.28m at the top and has elongated pyramid stops at the base. The cross-shaft is currently bound by two iron straps.
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 Churchyard of the Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Portskewett War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Cottage/Storehouse in Churchyard of Church of St MaryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.