A wooden rood cross carved by Jonah in the 1980s has been given a new home at St Mary’s Church, Tenby. The Christus Rex figure was previously in St Alban’s Church, Llanelli, which closed earlier this year.
The cross is now the focal point of the Garden of Tranquillity in the church grounds to the south-west side of St Mary’s Church, and was dedicated in this new position by the Bishop of St David’s on 16 July.
Christus Rex, wood, St Mary’s Church, Tenby. Photograph: Andrew Davies.
The Rev. Andrew Davies, Rector of the Tenby Rectorial Benefice, told Scene & Word: “I knew of the cross because I was a Curate at St Alban’s in the early 1980s. I was saddened to hear of the impending closure of St Alban’s and was determined to find the Christus Rex an appropriate new home.”
Scene & Word greatly appreciates Rev. Davies’s concern for Jonah’s rood cross and thanks him for securing its new home.