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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Peter (Wolverhampton) Alternative Name: St Wulfruna's Cross; St Peter's Garden Cross; Wroxeter Roman Column; The Wolverhampton CrossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 4.861 km away from the location you searched for.
County: West Midlands Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Wolverhampton
Map Ref: SO9141998765
Latitude: 52.586621N Longitude: 2.128087W
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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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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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Ancient Cross in West Midlands
Late 10th Century cross in the churchyard of St Peter's; see also The Bargain Stone.
This cross is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 118820 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1005886.
The Journal of Antiquities also features a page for this Anglian Cross - see their entry for The Wolverhampton Cross, St Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, which includes photographs of the cross and its information board, directions for finding this cross, information from a number of modern reference sources, and a list of related websites from which more information can be obtained. The Journal adds: "The Wolverhampton Cross, Wroxeter Roman column, St Peter’s Garden Cross or, even Saint Wulfruna’s Cross, call it what you will, is a column/pillar made of sandstone that stands just over 4 metres (13½ feet) high on its large sturdy base of four rounded steps. It cylinder-shaped shaft gradually tapers away towards the top to be surmounted by a capital where originally a cross was built onto it – and what a spectacular monument it must have been. Thought to date from 850 AD although historians now tend to think that it was carved in the late 10th century at which time (994 AD) a monastery was founded here by St Wulfruna and the original church perhaps raised to ‘minster status’, although scholars think it unlikely that there ever was a Saxon monastery. The present church is 15th century."
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