Wayside Cross – Arichondel, Jersey, Channel Islands - Made for the Millennium on Waymarking.com

The La Société Jersiaise website has the following information about the crosses.

"The 12 crosses were erected in each of the Island's parishes as a gift from the States. The project was one of those sponsored by the Millennium Fund to mark 2,000 years of Christianity.

It is believed that wayside crosses were once abundant throughout the Island, until they were all but destroyed during the Reformation. Little evidence now remains of them.

The design selected is based on the cross which now stands at Elizabeth Castle, which was erected there in 1959 to mark the site of the Abbey of St Helier. It is believed to be an excellent reproduction of a medieval wayside cross.

The design, which features a slender granite cross atop a solid granite base, including an octagonal supporting collar, is around 8-ft high. The inscription of the date and the appropriate parish crest on the base of the crosses was at the discretion of the individual parishes."

This cross is situated in the Parish of St. Martin. It is near to a small car park with a picnic site on the coast road of La Route le Brun.

The plinth on which the cross stands has the parish coat of arms of a silver shileld with three horizontal red lines.

On either side of the coat of arms are words in gold lettering describing two chapels that used to be nearby .

To the north & south		Post-Reformation
of this site were two		the two chapels fell
14th Century		into ruins and were
chapels dedicated to		demolished in 1844
St. Catherine &		during the building
St. Agatha		of the breakwater.

Underneath the arms are the words
In the year of Our Lord
          2000

Related web site: [Web Link] Can you tell us who created the item: Stone dresser Michael Frost Condition of the item: Great So what did YOU do for the millennium?: Attended a party

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