3421 x 5150 px | 29 x 43,6 cm | 11,4 x 17,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2010
Ort:
Tintagel, Cornwall, England
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Tintagel Church is dedicated to St Merteriane or Materianas. St Materianas may have been St Madryn, a princess of Gwent, who is believed to have preached here. The present church may have been built on the site of a Celtic oratory run by the monks of Minster. It is outside Tintagel village on a uncluttered site beside the coast path. Tintagel Church today has a cruciform shape of nave chancel and transepts, and was built between 1080 and 1150. The Norman Earls of Cornwall held Tintagel and built first Bossiney Castle. Then Earl Reginald, a son of Henry I, built the first Tintagel castle on the island around 1141 and probably finished building the church. Much of the existing stonework of the north wall may part of an earlier church incorporated in the Norman building . The 1940 excavations revealed a crypt underneath the floor containing a number of burials (I have not been able to corroborate this)
