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
19241
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1998
Date of Amendment
29/01/1998
Name of Property
Churchyard Cross in St David's churchyard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Laleston
Town
Locality
Laleston
Easting
287540
Northing
179845
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the church near the porch.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Churchyard crosses mostly date from the medieval period and acted as a site for preaching especially for the itinerant orders, a focus of liurgical processions and to sanctify the churchyard for burial before the development of individual graveyard monuments after the Reformation. Top of shaft has been remodelled, creating a knob finial possibly from the base of a former crucifix.
Exterior
Consists of 3 rectangular steps, deep square hipped plinth stone with slender shaft broached at base; shaft weathered though appears formerly octagonal, now ending in a knob.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a medieval churchyard cross which is mostly intact and for group value with the church of St David and Cliff Cottage.
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