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
11215
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/05/1951
Date of Amendment
17/02/1998
Name of Property
Churchyard Cross
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Porthcawl
Town
Porthcawl
Locality
Newton
Easting
283660
Northing
177459
Street Side
Location
In the churchyard near the S porch of the Church of St John the Baptist.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Churchyard crosses date mostly from the later medieval period and acted as a site for preachers from itinerant orders, a focus of liturgical processions and to sanctify the churchyard for burial before the development of individual graveyard monuments after the Reformation. This example like many has a replaced shaft.
Exterior
Cross stands on a base of 4 rectangular steps. Socket stone is weathered, broached, with heavy corner mouldings. Replaced shaft and crucifix, the crucified Christ flanked by the two Marys on a stiff leaf pedestal.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a partly surviving medieval monument and for group value with church of St John the Baptist close by.
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