Preaching Cross - Newport - Gwent, Wales.
N 51° 35.379 W 002° 59.830
30U E 500196 N 5715399
Preaching Cross or Wayside Cross - Representing the Crucifixion, located in front of the exchange building (the Old Post office) Newport - Gwent, Wales.
Waymark Code: WMFMKK
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/04/2012
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This Preaching Cross, is a copy of the cross in Newport Museum, found during the construction of the Newport bridge in 1926. The old cross is thought to date from between 1450 and 1500.
"A preaching cross is a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out-of-doors to designate a preaching place.
In Britain and Ireland, many free-standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected. Some of these crosses bear figurative or decorative carvings, or inscriptions in runes. There are surviving free-standing crosses in Cornwall and Wales." Text Source: (
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