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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: All Saints (Londesborough) Alternative Name: The Londesborough CrossCountry: England County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Market Weighton Nearest Village: Londesborough
Map Ref: SE86864538
Latitude: 53.897324N Longitude: 0.679635W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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In All Saints Church at Londesborough is an Anglo/Danish cross-head and part of the shaft from a preaching cross. Although it is difficult to date these artefacts they are considered to be from the 9th-11th century.
These were excavated from close by the church, probably the churchyard, and the cross-head was built into the wall above the Norman doorway (south side). There are carvings on the piece of shaft and head that show distinct signs of both Saxon and Danish workmanship.
The church is said to be built on or close to the site of a pagan temple that belonged to Coifi the high priest but which was christianised by St Paulinus in 625 - at about the same time that he converted King Edwin of Northumbria. There was also a summer palace hereabouts belonging to the Saxon kings of Northumbria during the 6th and 7th century CE. When the local lake was drained back in 1895 a small section of Roman pavement was discovered; the village itself lies on the course of a Roman road.
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