Churchyard Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 May 1951. House.
Churchyard Cross
- WRENN ID
- under-pediment-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Churchyard Cross, Newton, Porthcawl
- OS grid reference
- SS 836 774
- Coordinates
- 51.48408, -3.67689
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The churchyard cross stands on a base made up of four rectangular steps. The socket stone is weathered and broached, featuring heavy corner mouldings. It has a replaced shaft and crucifix, with the figure of the crucified Christ flanked by the two Marys on a stiff leaf pedestal.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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