Church of St Mary and Preaching Cross - Walks and places to visit while staying at the Golden Pheasant (sitios de interés)
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In a hillside village high above the Clwyd valley, St Mary’s displays two outstanding medieval treasures. The first is the 15th century preaching cross in the churchyard, now in the care of CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments. Among the best-preserved examples in Wales, the cross was the focus of open-air sermons by travelling friars and other visiting preachers.Within the church is an even more unusual medieval treasure – a 15th or early 16th century rood screen complete with its rood loft. Surviving medieval rood screens are themselves quite uncommon (there is a fine example atClocaenog) but the galleries or ‘lofts’ which originally surmounted them are very rare survivals indeed: Derwen’s is one of only a dozen or so in Wales.