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Croes Wion

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf, Isle of Anglesey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3111 / 53°18'39"N

Longitude: -4.221 / 4°13'15"W

OS Eastings: 252123

OS Northings: 381651

OS Grid: SH521816

Mapcode National: GBR HMYY.H79

Mapcode Global: WH53T.418G

Plus Code: 9C5Q8Q6H+CH

Entry Name: Croes Wion

Listing Date: 12 May 1970

Last Amended: 27 August 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5379

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300005379

Location: In a walled enclosure at the W side of the A5025 on the S approach to the village of Benllech.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Community: Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf

Community: Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf

Locality: Benllech

Traditional County: Anglesey

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as the remains of a Medieval Cross which is of local historic interest.

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