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
5379
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/05/1970
Date of Amendment
27/08/2002
Name of Property
Croes Wion
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf
Town
Locality
Benllech
Easting
252123
Northing
381651
Street Side
W
Location
In a walled enclosure at the W side of the A5025 on the S approach to the village of Benllech.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Medieval cross. Croes Wion was noted as the site of a meeting place as long ago as 1414, being the site of 'Y Farchnad Fawr' or the 'big market', which drew crowds from the surrounding districts who would travel by land and sea to gather at the site.
The various reports in the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society show a well documented process by which the base of the cross (once forming part of the wall on the opposite side of the road to it's current position), was removed from Plas Goronwy Isaf (aka Plas Gwion) where it had been used as a hearthstone, to it's present site where "it would be an object of great interest to the vast number of passers by". The re-erection of the cross was first mooted in 1913, but the next report of the Committee in 1920 records that work was delayed due to the war and that Mr H Hughes FSA had prepared a scheme and plan, but the Committee proposed that work be deferred. In 1921 the Committee was prepared to donate £10 towards the cost of the work (estimated at £15) provided the balance be found locally, and by 1922 the Committee was glad to announce the cross set up and walled in @ £15-18s(£15.90), £7-1s-6d(£7.08) raised locally and the balance paid by the Society. In 1925 the Committee decided that a stone be set up in front of the cross to bear the inscription 'Shaft and base of Croes Wion, re-erected by the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1921.'
Exterior
Medieval base and lower part of cross of rough gritstone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as the remains of a Medieval Cross which is of local historic interest.
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