Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18965
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/10/1997
Date of Amendment
15/10/1997
Name of Property
Churchyard Cross in Coychurch Churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Coychurch Lower
Town
Locality
Coychurch
Easting
293956
Northing
179677
Street Side
Location
Situated in Coychurch churchyard very close to the S door of the Church of St Crallo.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Medieval churchyard crosses served both to sanctify the churchyard for burial before the custom of individual churchyard monuments developed after the Reformation and as a focus for preachers especially of the itinerant orders.
Exterior
A large and high churchyard cross of finely coursed and finished stone, consisting of a hexagonal block of 5 steps, each tier comprising a stone step with a moulded edge; the plinth is a large broached hexagonal block on a shallow splayed base; octagonal shaft is tapered, with weathered stops and a later square sundial of 1715 in place of former cross head.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed II*as an almost complete late medieval monument of unusual size, and for group value with the Church of St Crallo, the group of 3 table tombs, and the tombstone of Thomas Richards.
Scheduled Ancient Monument: GM212(BRI)
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