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FourWinds F
FourWinds Jul 13, 2009 07:55:18
Replying to baza

baza wrote:
FourWinds wrote:
My money's on it being a Norman cross.
Err.....

....in Willenhall?

Yeah. Why not? :-) Maybe not Norman, then, but it's a cross. It's tall, square in section and it's in a churchyard. Don't think there's much sandstone around Willenhall and if the church is sandstone it was probably made at the same time.

It's a cross stump. A Victorian one at that.

E Enderfay
Enderfay Jul 13, 2009 08:02:38
Replying to FourWinds

Thanks for all of the input folks.....

I'm going to make a determined effort to 'get round the vicar' in the next couple of days and have a go at cataloguing the column properly..... Wish me luck!!! Laugh!!

Regards,

Enderfay

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jul 13, 2009 08:36:55
Replying to FourWinds

Is it the main church in Willenhall? If so there was a church on the site dating from 700 years ago. It looks like red sandstone to me - there's a quarry for that at Codsall and the exterior of the existing church was clad with stone from there along with several other churches.

Saxon/maybe Roman pillar outside St Peters,W-ton and two other Saxon cross bases in the city.

Could also be something from a Victoriam Del-boy's mum's grave perhaps?

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