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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Holy Trinity Church, EccleshallCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.353 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Staffordshire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Eccleshall
Map Ref: SJ82752917
Latitude: 52.859738N Longitude: 2.257646W
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 |
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| -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 |
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BrownEdger visited on 28th Jul 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
Set within the large church at the western end of Eccleshall High Street, the church, and its site, has a very long history. The oldest tokens of this history are a number of carved stone fragments, set within the fabric of the building.
These fragments are not very well documented or interpreted. Online, the only information mentions 'a number of carved pre-Norman stones', and within the church, information on a hand held board (resembles a square table tennis racket) says there is a fragment of a cross shaft within the wall of the choir vestry, and other stones built witihn the nave. Within the choir vestry there are (in my opinion) two Saxon Cross fragments within the northern wall.
These two fragments were hard to locate; on arrival in the building I soon found a collection of carved ornate stones within the northwest corner of the tower's floor. I took some photos, but am not convinced any are Saxon. I have submitted a photo as documentation just in case.
I scouted around looking for an information leaflet, and eventually found the table tennis bat, which informed me to look in the choir vestry. Having noticed labelled light switches in the tower, I returned there and pressed the one labelled choir vestry, and thankfully one light lit up just across the tower.
The vestry was extremely dark; poorly lit indeed. Thankfully, I soon spotted not just one, but two fragments. A large piece of furniture upended obscured one, but a shift out of the way by a foot enabled a better view. Due to no interpretive material, I can not reliably comment on what is seen on the carvings.
The earliest church on the site is thought to date to the Sixth Century AD, when it was laid waste by 'heathen Mercians'; the church was again sacked, but by the Danes in 1010; it was not until 24 years after the Norman Conquest that full reparition was made. The church remains today as one of the most historically important churches in Staffordshire.
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