Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pillar Stone in Church
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Painscastle, Powys, recorded as Cross-marked stone (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross-marked stone
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.13766, -3.18960
- SAM number
- RD101
- Cadw record number
- 503
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (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 stone with a cross carved into the surface, probably dating to the 7th-9th century AD which has been set into the floor of the church against the south wall adjacent to the altar. The stone is 1.7m in length and 0.4m wide and has been inscribed with a large deeply incised linear cross with 5 rings and dot devices symmetrically disposed in the centre and at arm ends with 4 crosslets in each interspace.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of early medieval Christianity. A cross marked stone 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.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Black House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- PortwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Great HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.