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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Michael's Porthilly Churchyard Cross Alternative Name: Porthilly Churchyard CrossCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Padstow Nearest Village: Porthilly
Map Ref: SW937753
Latitude: 50.540991N Longitude: 4.912902W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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lucasn visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
It is a sturdy low granite wheel-head cross, and listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, Grade II. It is described as 10th century.
On the EH Schedule record website the OS grid reference is incorrect, but hopefully the right one appears on this site page.
In the listed info the dimensions are given as:
Height - 0.96m; Width - 0.85m; and Thickness - 0.28m.
St Michael's Church is in a wonderful setting, directly above the river Camel, beside a small cove - a similar situation to St Just in Roseland.
It was open for a while (when we visited on Tuesday 13th May) for a wedding, after which the bride and groom departed by small boat. Very romantic.
Though the lane to the church was not well signposted on the day we visited, we were really glad we found it in the end. There is a largish church car park nearby. (If we hadn't already walked to St Enodoc and Jesus Well we could have left the car and walked from Rock.)
There is info on Wikipedia, where I found the link to the Scheduled listings pages.
Situation in St Minver Lowlands parish. The other two churches in the area are the wonderful St Enodoc in the sand dunes near Rock, and St Menefreda at St Minver.
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