The Holly Cross - Church in Wales - Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
N 51° 27.690 W 003° 26.970
30U E 468772 N 5701243
The medieval Parish Church of the Holy Cross is part of the Rectorial benefice of Cowbridge, in The Church of Wales - Dioceses of Llandaff. The Holy Cross is located in the market town of Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/13/2014
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The Church in Wales is made up of over 900 parishes. If you live in Wales, you will live in a parish. Each parish covers a specific geographic area and is looked after by a cleric assigned to it. Each Parish may have several church's. The parish of Cowbridge has eleven Churches within its boundaries.
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"The Church in Wales (Welsh: Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
As with the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Wales serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The current archbishop is Barry Morgan, the Bishop of Llandaff.
In contrast to the Church of England, the Church in Wales is not an established church. Disestablishment was effected in 1920, under the Welsh Church Act 1914. It kept all its church buildings including those that dated to before the Reformation.
As a member of the Anglican Communion, the Church in Wales recognises the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury. But the latter does not have any formal authority in the Church in Wales (except for residual roles — in ecclesiastical court to try the archbishop, as metropolitan, and the appointment of notaries). A handful of border parishes remained in the Church of England and were exempt from disestablishment. A cleric of the Church in Wales can be appointed to posts in the Church of England, including the See of Canterbury; the former archbishop, Rowan Williams, was from Wales and served as Archbishop of Wales before his appointment to Canterbury." Text Source: (
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"The Parish church of the Holy Cross was probably founded with the medieval town of Cowbridge, and was formerly a chapel of ease of Llanblethian Church. Parts of the church are of 12th and 13th Century construction and it was extended and partly rebuilt in the 14th and 15th Centuries. The Holy Cross was restored in 1848-53 and again in the 20th Century. Built of stone with slate roofs the church has several internal features of note including a 15th Century wagon roof to the south aisle and several memorials to notable figures who lived or were born in the locality." Text Source: (
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"The Parish of Cowbridge, strictly a Rectorial Benefice, is centred on Cowbridge, a small market town in the beautiful and rural Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, about 13 miles west of Cardiff on the principal non-motorway route (A48) between Cardiff and Swansea." Text Source: (
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"Probably founded with the medieval town and remodelled during the Medieval period. The present building incorporates a nave and chancel of later C13 work; C14 tower; C15 S aisle and chantry chapel; C16 addition to E end; C19 N porch. Tower renovated in 1893. Local stone walls and slate roofs. Windows of Perpendicular form; many restored or rebuilt during 1850s by John Prichard. Nave arcade of five bays. C15 wagon roof to south aisle; oak boarded roof of c1926 to nave. Pulpit of 1890s (RAJ 4/4/01; based on CADW listing description)." Text source: (
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