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Photo Pages: Great Urswick Cross - Ancient Cross in England in Cumbria
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Submitted by nicoladidsbury on Thursday, 05 May 2005 Page Views: 4077
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 Site Name: Great Urswick Cross Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Ulverston Nearest Village: Great Urswick
Map Ref: SD26867422
Latitude: 54.158559N Longitude: 3.121544W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Ancient Cross in Cumbria
Ancient Cross at St Mary and Michael's Church, Great Urswick.
The stone was found on the site by a turn-of-the-century vicar and was investigated on the site by the respected historian WG Collingwood, who believed that it was a fragment of a Northumbrian cross dated at the earliest to 850 AD. However Steve Dickinson, a Barrow born archaeologist, believes that the parish church rune stone holds the key to a fascinating 1600 year-old story that reveals the origins of Christianity in Britain.
The stone was revealed when the church was under-going restoration. It had been used as a lintel over one of the windows.
It is beautifully carved, with a panel of runic writing, and a carving of two figures at the bottom. Within these two panels lies a mystery, and the intriguing glimpse of our past, when the Roman Church strived to over-come the Celtic Church.
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 Great Urswick Cross submitted by rldixon
photo of tatty information about Cross cleaned up best i could in Photoshop
 Great Urswick Cross submitted by rldixon
detail of cross
 Great Urswick Cross submitted by rldixon
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 Great Urswick Cross submitted by rldixon
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 Great Urswick Cross submitted by rldixon
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 Great Urswick Cross submitted by nicoladidsbury
Ancient Cross at St Mary and Michael's Church, Great Urswick
Sculpted figures panel carving.
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 Great Urswick Cross submitted by nicoladidsbury
Ancient Cross at St Mary and Michael's Church, Great Urswick
Runic panel carving.
See site's main page for more information.
 Great Urswick Cross submitted by nicoladidsbury
Ancient Cross at St Mary and Michael's Church, Great Urswick.
This side of the cross shaft is carved in intertwining vines.
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