Latitude: 51.4633 / 51°27'47"N
Longitude: -3.593 / 3°35'34"W
OS Eastings: 289431
OS Northings: 175014
OS Grid: SS894750
Mapcode National: GBR HC.M4XS
Mapcode Global: VH5HQ.NHW3
Plus Code: 9C3RFC74+8Q
Entry Name: Churchyard Cross, Church of St Bridget
Listing Date: 3 March 1999
Last Amended: 3 March 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21767
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: St Bride's Major Churchyard Cross
ID on this website: 300021767
Location: Located on the N side of the Church of St. Bridget, to the E of the porch. The platform is built into the hillside which slopes down to the N.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Community: St. Bride's Major (Saint-y-Brid)
Community: St. Bride's Major
Locality: St Brides Major
Built-Up Area: St Brides Major
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Cross Churchyard cross
C16 preaching cross. Pilgrims knelt in prayer on the stone steps, and farm workers are said to have sharpened their sickles on them. Said to have been damaged during Cromwell’s time. Restored in 1985.
Stone churchyard cross on large 6-step platform. Heavy flagstone caps to steps with moulded edges. The base of the cross is square with deeply chamfered top angles. Polygonal tapering shaft with broach stops, surmounted by an orb with mouldings and small foliate bosses to underside.
An exceptionally well preserved example of a medieval preaching cross. Group value with the church.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 174.
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