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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Arvan's Cross - Ancient Cross in Wales in Monmouthshire

Submitted by Sunny100 on Sunday, 27 June 2010  Page Views: 6266

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Arvan's Cross Alternative Name: St Arvan's Church Cross
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.8 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Monmouthshire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Chepstow  Nearest Village: St Arvans
Map Ref: ST517965
Latitude: 51.665191N  Longitude: 2.699747W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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xseawitch visited on 18th Nov 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 5 The cross is inside the church, now in one piece, but not very impressive, I'm afraid. The church and circular graveyard are pretty though and worth seeing.

Jansold visited on 3rd Mar 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Originally discovered in the church walls during the 1880 restoration works of the church, the cross was dowelled together in 2008 by the CADW works at Tintern



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Access: 5

St Arvan's Cross
St Arvan's Cross submitted by Sunny100 : St Arvan's Cross, Monmouthshire, at ST.517965. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Cross in Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy). St Arvan's Cross in Monmouthshire (Sir Finwy), at ST.517965. In the church of St Arfan in the Wye Valley, 3 miles N of Chepstow, can be found two parts of a 10th century Celtic cross-shaft.

The two sections have been placed upon a windowsill. The top part, although lying down, has a distinct half wheel-head together with two-bird like symbols in plates at either side and interlacing. The second fragment has more interlacing and bird-like symbols.

According to the legend, St Arfan or Arveyn, who established the first church on this site was a hermit sometime between the 6th and 9th century. He drowned while fishing for salmon in his coracle, in the River Wye. The churchyard is circular in shape, indicating a pre-Christian site. A church certainly existed here in the 10th century, but the present building is much more recent.
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St Arvan's Cross
St Arvan's Cross submitted by Jansold : Back of slab - Plan Latin wheel cross flanked by panels of interlacing patterns (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Arvan's Cross
St Arvan's Cross submitted by Jansold : Front of slab - plain Latin wheel with interlacing infill, flanked by panels of bird headed angels. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Arvan's Cross
St Arvan's Cross submitted by Sunny100 : St Arvan's Cross, Monmouthshire, at ST.517965. Detail of the 10th century cross-slab, St Arvans Church (after V.E.Nash-Williams 1938). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST5196 : St Arvan's parish church by Jonathan Billinger
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ST5196 : St Arvan&#8217;s Church by Alan Hughes
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Re: St Arvan's Cross by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 16 April 2014
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Thankyou Dragonbreath, I am very envious of you visiting such a lovely church at St Arvan's, just that, as you say, the cross is repaired very badly. They should have left it as it was.
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Re: St Arvan's Cross by Dragonbreath on Wednesday, 16 April 2014
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Definately worth a visit,went there with my wife,Andrea we were slightly dissapointed that the stone had been "Repaired" by Cadw(very badly)but the church is beautifull.
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