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St. John's Churchyard Cross, Llandenny is a medieval cross base located within the churchyard of St. John the Baptist Church in Monmouthshire, Wales. The monument dates to the medieval period and would originally have supported a stone cross shaft, serving both as a focal point for worship and as a marker within the sacred burial space of the churchyard. The surviving base demonstrates the typical form of such ecclesiastical monuments, which functioned as centres for devotion and community gathering within parish churches throughout medieval Wales and the Welsh borderlands. The site is recorded under Cadw's Scheduled Ancient Monument designation MM322, reflecting its protected status as a significant element of the region's medieval religious heritage.
St. John's Churchyard Cross, Llandenny is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM322. View the official record →
St. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM322.
St. John's Churchyard Cross, Llandenny dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a cross base. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
St. John's Churchyard Cross, Llandenny is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MM322.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Coed-Cwnwr Moated Site (4.5 km), Gaer Fawr hillfort (5.8 km), Kilgwrrwg Churchyard Cross (7.2 km).
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