Historic Rhuddlan - St. Mary's Parish Church Traditional Cache

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Southerntrekker: Hi There

As the owner has not responded to either my log or my colleague's previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.

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Hidden : 3/10/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a small cache containing just a log which is located just outside the churchyard, but accessible only from the church grounds. It is part of a series which takes in historic sites in the village of Rhuddlan.

Please respect the graveyard and keep to the paths

The first church in the Norman Borough of Rhuddlan was built about 1080. Between 1277 and 1282 Rhuddlan hovered on the edge of a much greater importance as it nearly became the cathedral city of the Diocese of St.Asaph. This was refused by the Pope. A new Parish Church was built in 1301 which appears to have consisted of the present south nave. Over the next two centuries portions were added to make by and large, the building of today. St. Mary's celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2001 and a stained-glass window depicting the Castle, the Church, the Bridge and the River Clwyd was commissioned and installed.

Interesting features within the church include a tombstone of William de Freney, Archbishop of Edessa in Syria, which was brought from the Dominican Friary at it's dissolution in 1536 (he lived about 1250-1300 and his uncle Gilbert de Freney had been sent by St. Dominic to found the Dominican Order in England in 1221); and inscribed Biblical quotations (one of only two sets found in Britain - the other being at Sherrington, near Warminster in Wiltshire) dating back to about 1650. These are in Welsh and the text is the Welsh Bible of 1620.

The building was substantially restored in 1812 and by George Gilbert Scott in 1870. It is said to present the appearance of a typical 'Clwydian' or double-naved church of the late 15th Century.

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