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Latitude: 53.1099 / 53°6'35"N
Longitude: -3.2861 / 3°17'9"W
OS Eastings: 314006
OS Northings: 357746
OS Grid: SJ140577
Mapcode National: GBR 6T.8085
Mapcode Global: WH77H.H3F5
Plus Code: 9C5R4P57+XH
Entry Name: Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church
Listing Date: 24 June 1999
Last Amended: 24 June 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21925
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300021925
Location: Located in the churchyard, to the S of the church.
County: Denbighshire
Community: Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Community: Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Locality: Llanrhydd
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Churchyard cross
Late medieval churchyard cross shaft, probably late C15 and apparently in situ. The cross itself is lost and was already recorded missing in the C19. Some old incised graffiti, including the (now much weathered) date 1677 (or 72); on the eastern side of the shaft base are several grooves, traditionally held to have been made by the sharpening of weapons.
Late medieval churchyard cross shaft. Of local sandstone construction and consisting of a tall tapering shaft of approximately 3m in height, set upon an octagonal base of a height of roughly 50cm. The shaft has a square section at the base, but rises to a near-octagonal section above, having deeply-chamfered corners with simple ball-flower stops. Approximately two-thirds of the way up the shaft, on the chamfered sides, are small relief-carvings of heads with rosette or sun motifs carved below. A square cross base surmounts the shaft; a plain, later cross, of approximately 20cms high, was found to be adjacent at the time of survey. On the N and E sides of the shaft is some graffiti with the incised (and much eroded) date 1672[or 7] to the latter.
Listed Grade II* for its special interest as a particularly fine and scarce late medieval churchyard cross shaft.
Group value with other listed items at the Church of St Meugan.
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