Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Public house.

Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
standing-lintel-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Public house
Address
Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Marcross, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
OS grid reference
SS 921 690
Coordinates
51.41021, -3.55277
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The sundial in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity features a limestone base and the lower part of a churchyard cross, topped with a bronze sundial. The square medieval base has a large roll moulding at the top, which incorporates a smaller square medieval base with stops at the angles. Rising from this is a truncated octagonal medieval cross-shaft. The bronze sundial at the top is inscribed as the work of J King, optician, located at 2 Clare Street, Bristol.

Local climate

Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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