Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
21925
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/06/1999  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd  
Town
 
Locality
Llanrhydd  
Easting
314006  
Northing
357746  
Street Side
 
Location
Located in the churchyard, to the S of the church.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Late medieval churchyard cross shaft, probably late C15 and apparently in situ. The cross itself is lost and was already recorded missing in the C19. Some old incised graffiti, including the (now much weathered) date 1677 (or 72); on the eastern side of the shaft base are several grooves, traditionally held to have been made by the sharpening of weapons.  

Exterior
Late medieval churchyard cross shaft. Of local sandstone construction and consisting of a tall tapering shaft of approximately 3m in height, set upon an octagonal base of a height of roughly 50cm. The shaft has a square section at the base, but rises to a near-octagonal section above, having deeply-chamfered corners with simple ball-flower stops. Approximately two-thirds of the way up the shaft, on the chamfered sides, are small relief-carvings of heads with rosette or sun motifs carved below. A square cross base surmounts the shaft; a plain, later cross, of approximately 20cms high, was found to be adjacent at the time of survey. On the N and E sides of the shaft is some graffiti with the incised (and much eroded) date 1672[or 7] to the latter.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* for its special interest as a particularly fine and scarce late medieval churchyard cross shaft. Group value with other listed items at the Church of St Meugan.  

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