Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 June 1999. Cross shaft.
Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church
- WRENN ID
- dark-groin-sunrise
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1999
- Type
- Cross shaft
- Address
- Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church, Llanrhydd, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
- OS grid reference
- SJ 140 577
- Coordinates
- 53.10996, -3.28609
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard cross shaft at St Meugan's Church is a late medieval structure made of local sandstone. It features a tall tapering shaft that stands approximately 3 meters high, resting on an octagonal base that is about 50 centimeters tall. The base of the shaft has a square section, which transitions to a near-octagonal shape above, with deeply-chamfered corners adorned with simple ball-flower stops. About two-thirds of the way up the shaft, there are small relief carvings of heads on the chamfered sides, with rosette or sun motifs carved below them. At the top of the shaft is a square cross base, and a plain, later cross measuring around 20 centimeters high was found nearby during the survey. Additionally, there is some graffiti on the north and east sides of the shaft, including an incised and much-eroded date that appears to read 1672 or 1677.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross Shaft at St Meugan's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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