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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Collingham Crosses Alternative Name: St Oswald's Church; Apostles's Cross; Oswini CrossCountry: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Wetherby Nearest Village: Collingham
Map Ref: SE3901546096
Latitude: 53.909557N Longitude: 1.407588W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Anne T visited on 27th Apr 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Collingham Crosses, West Yorkshire: What are the chances of meeting someone whose grandparents built the house you live in now and has recollections of visiting, together with photographs of what the house used to look like? The grandparents of Rev. Sylvia Earle who is vicar of Collingham did in fact build our house, and she was able to tell us what it was like when she was younger, and provided us with a photograph of what our (then) bungalow was like when it was first built.
The church has to be kept locked these days as Rev Earle told us someone had stolen a fragment from the west end, and someone tried to set a fire against the wood panelling at the east end of the north aisle. Shame.
We were left with the keys to return once we’d finished, so spent a good 40 minutes wandering around the church, photographing the crosses and fragments, including the cross fragment built into the north wall of the vestry. The Victorian builders built the nave and chancel at an angle. The Runic and Apostle crosses were lovely, together with the unusual round creset.
Most of the furniture within the building looked new and well cared for, with pristine kneelers. Much enjoyed this visit: we were made very welcome and this is a pleasant sanctuary inside, although the noise from the A58 invaded the privacy of the churchyard.
Two early 9th century Anglian crosses in the nave. The church is locked, but access is granted by the very nice lady vicar who lives opposite (in the small house - not the Old Vicarage)
One of the crosses, called the Aerswith Cross, is decorated with a dragon and two opposing beasts. The carvings are derived from the Viking "Jellinge" style and there are undecipherable runes just below the lower panel.
The church of St Oswald is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1225846, which tells us: "Two important pre-Conquest cross shafts, one known as the Oswini Cross and claimed to be C7 and as such the 'oldest authentic Christian monument existing in the North of England', but now thought to be slightly later. This is carved with representations of the Apostles; the other is C9 or C10 and has interlace carving incorporating dragons and ruinic inscription in base".
The church and its Anglo Saxon crosses are also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 53029, which says there are smaller fragments also preserved in the church. The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for The Collingham Saxon Crosses, West Yorkshire, which includes a description, drawings of the crosses, and a list of reference sources for more information.
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