Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, Llanwern
Llanwern, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross base
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 30 July 2002
- Community
- Llanwern
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.58605, -2.90989
- SAM number
- MM324
- Cadw record number
- 3914
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 cross base in the churchyard of St. Mary's church, Llanwern. It comprises a partially sunken square/octagonal socket-stone 0.71m wide by 0.26m high with large, keeled, broached stops at the corners and cable moulding around the stops and top edge. The octagonal medieval cross-shaft survives to a height of 1.40m, is 0.32m wide at the base, tapering to 0.26m at the top and has elongated pyramid stops 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 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
- Parish Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Barn at The Barn FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Great MiltonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Thatched CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.