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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hope Church Early Medieval Stones - Ancient Cross in Wales in Flintshire

Submitted by HowardMRW on Sunday, 26 April 2020  Page Views: 1942

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Hope Church Early Medieval Stones Alternative Name: St Cyngar’s church, (also close to Wat's Dyke)
Country: Wales County: Flintshire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Wrexham  Nearest Village: Hope
Map Ref: SJ310584
Latitude: 53.118294N  Longitude: 3.032416W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Hope Church Early Medieval Stones
Hope Church Early Medieval Stones submitted by HowardMRW : St Cyngar’s church at Hope, Flintshire, has 3 surviving early medieval stone monuments. Here is F5 on display inside the church Reference Edwards, N. 2013. A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales. Volume III: North Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. (Vote or comment on this photo)
St Cyngar’s church at Hope, Flintshire, has three surviving early medieval stone monuments. Two are built-in externally into the medieval church’s structure They are both likely sandstone ring-headed cross grave-markers of 9th-11th-century date later reused into the medieval building. There is another (F5 pictured left) on display inside the church.

The carved stone was found in 2000 as a cut down and reshaped fragment found reused amidst rubble revealed during restoration work on the arcade wall between the north and south naves. Today, it is in the lady chapel wall: secure and safe but far away from its original context. It is a free-standing ring-cross carved from Cefn-y-Fedw sandstone, possibly a grave-marker according to Professor Nancy Edwards. The stone is without further ornament and so cannot be precisely dated. As with the other two, a ‘9th-11th century’ date-range is proposed by Edwards.

Given the simplistic nature of the carving, the absence of ‘Viking period’ ornamentation cannot really tell us much about either date or spheres of influence, sadly. Still, there are widespread parallels with other crosses in the Irish Sea orbit, including Ireland and the Isle of Man, showing that the early medieval origins of the Hopedale commote can be identified, as one might have expected, within the influence and connections of Chester and the North Wales coast. The closest parallel to all three stone-carved monuments from Hope is actually also from Flintshire, the cross-base from Dyserth (F3) (Edwards 2013: 355-356) near Prestatyn. The most elaborate ring-headed cross in North-East Wales is at Maen Achwyfan (Flintshire). So while generic at first glance, much can be said from this simple carved stone about the early medieval mortuary monuments of this part of present-day Wales.

Reference
Edwards, N. 2013. A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales. Volume III: North Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

More, with links at Prof Howard Williams' blog. (and more links in our comments below)

Note: Prof Howard MW Williams visits Hope Churchyard to discuss early Medieval stone monuments, linked in our comments
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Hope Church Early Medieval Stones
Hope Church Early Medieval Stones submitted by HowardMRW : This is Professor Nancy Edwards’ F7. Transferred to black-and-white, and with the contrast ramped up, you get a good impression of these sandstone fragments, traces of what might have originally been grave-covers of Viking-period date (9th-11th centuries AD) and originally lain over Christian graves around a far earlier church than the present one. Reference Edwards, N. 2013. A Corpus of... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Hope Church Early Medieval Stones
Hope Church Early Medieval Stones submitted by HowardMRW : Managing historic churchyards is a cost and a challenge for parish councils in the early 21st century. The pressures to make them safe and accessible for worshippers, mourners and visitors have to be balanced against conserving gravestones and other historical features including their gates, walls, paths and other monuments such as sundials. How do animals fit into this? Well, while many his... (5 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Hope Church Early Medieval Stones
Hope Church Early Medieval Stones submitted by HowardMRW : This is Professor Nancy Edwards’ F6. Transferred to black-and-white, and with the contrast ramped up, you get a good impression of these sandstone fragments, traces of what might have originally been grave-covers of Viking-period date (9th-11th centuries AD) and originally lain over Christian graves around a far earlier church than the present one. Reference Edwards, N. 2013. A Corpus of... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Video: Early Medieval Stone Monuments (Revisited) by Andy B on Sunday, 26 April 2020
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Prof Howard MR Williams writes: I’ve released a YouTube video on my new channel that introduces viewers to the 3 early medieval fragments of 9th-11th-century gravestone – 1 inside, 2 outside – reused in the fabric of the later medieval church at Hope, Flintshire.

Four-and-a-half years ago, the book Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape was published by Boydell Press. I edited the collection with Joanne Kirton and Meggen Gondek. I also discuss the book’s Introduction and contents. Watch it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoV5HR-Cews&t=55s



Source, with more info and links:
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/early-medieval-stone-monuments-revisited/
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The Sheep of Death by Andy B on Sunday, 26 April 2020
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Prof Howard MR Williams writes The Sheep of Death

Managing historic churchyards is a cost and a challenge for parish councils in the early 21st century. The pressures to make them safe and accessible for worshippers, mourners and visitors have to be balanced against conserving gravestones and other historical features including their gates, walls, paths and other monuments such as sundials.

How do animals fit into this? Well, while many historic churchyards have in the past taken drastic steps of dislocating memorials from graves to facilitate mechanised mowing, others have incorporated conservation areas where vegetation is less intensely managed to facilitate wildlife as well as ease the burden of maintenance. Yet a further strategy adopted at some churchyards is more traditional and sustainable: introduce sheep!IMG_20190921_094531

This brings with it extra challenges that jar with the aesthetics and expectations of some. These are that all trees and other lower vegetation, including yew trees, must be fences off from the little bleaters. Another downside: sheep produce ovicaprid faeces, although the small number of animals introduced mean that this is rarely the problem it is compared with navigating a field of the beasts!

Yet the upsides are tangible: a small group of woolly chompers can keep the grass and other vegetation under check in a cheaper and less labour intensive fashion than any mowers and strimmers. It also reflects what must have been a common practice of previous centuries; letting beasts roam among memorials to the dead.

More at
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/the-sheep-of-death/
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