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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Pennant Melangell Cross Alternative Name: St Melangell's Church (Pennant Melangell)Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.973 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Powys Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Bala Nearest Village: Pennant Melangell
Map Ref: SJ02422654
Latitude: 52.827521N Longitude: 3.449699W
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 |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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There are several records for this church on the Coflein Database:
Churchyard Cross: Coflein NPRN 306541 at SJ02422654;
The octagonal cross shaft is 1.4m high and believed to be 14th century, mounted on a step and topped by a sundial.
Churchyard Mound: Coflein NPRN 309733 at SJ02422657;
This mound is reported to have been a preaching mound associated with the cult of St Germanus.
The Church of St Melangell: Coflein NPRN 160381;
The church was first founded in the 7th or 8th century to serve a community of nuns, and still retains St Melangell's shrine.
The Journal of Antiquities includes an entry for this church - see their page for St Melangell’s Church, Pennant Melangell, Powys, Wales, which includes a photograph, a drawing,deatils of the artefacts within the church, local legends and a list of reference sources for more information.
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