Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Mabli's Churchyard Cross, Llanvapley
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, recorded as Cross base (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross base
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 20 August 2002
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82171, -2.92007
- SAM number
- MM318
- Cadw record number
- 3912
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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)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 cross base in the churchyard of St. Mabli's church, Llanvapley. It comprises four ashlar-built steps 4.0m square at ground level surmounted by an square/octagonal socket-stone 0.92m wide by 0.67m high with large, keeled, broached (or "bull-nosed") stops at the corners and cable moulding around the stops and top edge. The lowest step is deeply chamfered on the underside. The cross-shaft does not survive, though the socket measures some 0.36m square and has a horizontal hole drilled in each face. The cross was recorded in its current position in 1893.
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 base 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
- Churchyard cross in Llanvapley churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint Mapley/ MabliReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Middle TonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.