Newborough Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 June 1998. House.

Newborough Cross

WRENN ID
scattered-pinnacle-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 June 1998
Type
House
Address
Newborough Cross, Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron
OS grid reference
SH 120 221
Coordinates
52.76444, -4.78758
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Newborough Cross is a memorial cross made of large, worked blocks of grey stone. The cross itself is a single monolith featuring a tall, tapering shaft and a wheel-cross head adorned with incised decorations, including three sunflower roundels on the arms and a vesica with a monogram in the center. It stands on a plain square base atop a massive square pedestal, which has an inscription and a plinth made of two large slabs, all without additional ornamentation. The inscription commemorates Sir Spencer Bulkely Wynn, 5th Baronet and 3rd Baron Newborough of Glynllifon and Bodfean, who lived from 1803 to 1888 and was buried here in 1889. A rear inscription notes that the cross was erected in 1891 by F G Wynn.

Local climate

Newborough Cross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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