<< Our Photo Pages >> Church of St. Mary (Fishguard) - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Wales in Pembrokeshire
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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Church of St. Mary (Fishguard) Alternative Name: AbergwaunCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.195 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Pembrokeshire Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Fishguard
Map Ref: SM957370
Latitude: 51.993768N Longitude: 4.977174W
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 |
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I'm still on this fabulous pilgrimage through southwest Wales, following this sublime spiritual flow, checking the progress of restoration at the significant sites. I have just passed 7 years on Her road.
Today, I was in Fishguard where She circles the exterior of the church building, but doesn't go inside. The present church building is a Victorian rebuild and has some beautiful stained glass old and modern. The church building, looking over Fishguard Bay to Dinas Island, is clearly built on a far more ancient sacred site.
Jemima Nichols, the Welsh heroine of the last invasion of Britain, is commemorated here with a stone on the south side.
There is a gorgeously inscribed, but slightly damaged, (most probably) medieval stone in the churchyard that I didn't know about - and enquiring with a lady there, they have not publicised it in any way, or even investigated anything about it. For sure it doesn't stand where it originally did. Some of the designs on it are the same as some that are 'painted' etherically in the 'Christian High Places' by this sacred energy.
Either side of a buttress in the northeast are carved faces of pilgrims or monks (maybe), similar to the wooden one on the beam, inside the church at Llanwnda.
Inside St. Mary's church is a Bath stone window couplet that came from the (supposedly) lost, early medieval pilgrim chapel of Llanmartin. I'm pretty sure I know where it was. (Am investigating this.)
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