Cornish Crosses 1 - Pendrea Cross Traditional Cache
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Cornish Crosses 1 - Pendrea Cross
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A Quick cache and dash and the first of the cornish crosses series
We have noticed so many crosses on the roadside in Penwith so we have decided to start a cornish crosses series. Anyone wishing to add to ther series please contact us for the next available number.
some caches will not be by the cross for either safety to cachers or safety to the cross.
The Pendrea Cross is one of a significant group of medieval granite crosses in the parish of St Buryan (see Preston-Jones and Langdon 1997). The earliest of these crosses, in the parish churchyard, is of late 10th century date, and was probably connected with the collegiate church which existed on the site of St Buryan Church in pre-Norman and medieval times (Henderson 1925, 67). The Pendrea Cross, however, like most of the other wayside crosses in the parish, is more likely to be of 12th or 13th century date. It is named after nearby Pendrea Farm, first recorded in a charter of Athelstan of the first half of the 10th century (Hooke 1994, 22 – 27), whose name means ‘top of the village’ (Padel 1985, 180). The cross, however, is not recorded until 1943, when it was discovered in two pieces, part-buried in the foot of a hedge on the left-hand side of the entrance to Pendrea Farm (Langdon 1997, 18), by Tom Angove (Hosking 2002, 26). It was then moved, and lay on top of the hedge opposite Pendrea House until 1959 (Fig 3), when the head and upper part of the shaft only were mounted on a modern granite base, in the present location on the wide verge of the road leading south-west out of St Buryan (Anon 1960, Langdon 1997, 18) (Fig 2). Why the present location was chosen, instead of a location closer to original find-spot by the entrance to Pendrea Farm, is apparently not known.
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