Churchuard Cross at Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1995. Monument. 1 related planning application.

Churchuard Cross at Parish Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
dark-landing-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 July 1995
Type
Monument
Address
Churchuard Cross at Parish Church of St Mary, Bonvilston, St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
OS grid reference
ST 064 740
Coordinates
51.45735, -3.34768
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Churchward Cross at the Parish Church of St Mary is a historical monument featuring a four-stepped base made from limestone blocks. Each step consists of two courses of local limestone, topped by a roughly hewn, weathered, tapering block of sandstone. At the top, there is a plain 20th-century cross made of Forest of Dean sandstone.

Local climate

Churchuard Cross at Parish Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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