Pillar of Eliseg is a Grade I listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1963. Cross.
Pillar of Eliseg
- WRENN ID
- moated-brick-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1963
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Pillar of Eliseg, Valle Crucis, Llangollen, Llantysilio
- OS grid reference
- SJ 202 445
- Coordinates
- 52.99214, -3.18923
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Pillar of Eliseg is a Grade I listed sandstone cross, approximately 2.41 meters high. The upper part of the cross is broken and missing, having been thrown down during the Civil War. It is set in a socket on a large flat base that measures approximately 1.65 meters by 1.65 meters and is 0.42 meters thick. The cross originally featured a long inscription of 31 lines in round half-uncial script, which was recorded by Edward Llwyd in 1696. Unfortunately, this inscription is now almost invisible. There is an additional inscription on the northeast face that notes the cross was re-erected in 1780 by T Lloyd de Trevor.
Local climate
Pillar of Eliseg receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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