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History of the Club
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| The Club was formed in 1968 by Elaine and Don Hughes who then shot at
St. Kingsmark School, it was decided to move to the then new athletic
club a few years later where we have remained ever since. The Club was
originally a field club shooting on the weekends in piercefield woods.
Don was a tournament judge for many years and Elaine was a well known
Regional Coach, both are now life members of the club in light of their
hard work in keeping the venue open for so many years. |
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Father Kingsmark
(also Cynfarch, Cynmarch, Kynemark) was a monk, Scottish chieftain,
and disciple of St. Dubricius of Caerleon in the 5th century. He
later lived in Wales, where he grew to such renown for his holiness,
that soon after his death he was glorified by the Welsh faithful.
St. Kingsmark is said to have been married to a granddaughter of St.
Brychan of Brecknock.
Many
churches are dedicated to him in the English West Country and Wales.
His feastday
is celebrated on 8th September. |
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About
one mile north of Chepstow lie the remains of another small monastic
house. St Kynemark, Kinmarchus, Kinmarch seem to be Norman
corruptions of ‘Cynfarch’ as some sort of approximate
pronunciation, and this house was the one situated a mile North of
Chepstow, but was not a church administered from Chepstow Priory.
It
lies on the road from Chepstow , but the church lay on high ground.
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The
ridge reaches a height of 250 feet above sea level providing
extensive views over the lower Wye and the Bristol Channel. To the
North is Chepstow Park and to the west the view is blocked by St
Lawrence’s Hill and by Cophill. Butler says in his excellent paper
for the Historical Journal of The Church in Wales, that the priory
lies close to the cliffs bordering the Wye and the head of a steep
side valley from the river; It also commands the head of a more
gentle valley sweeping down into Chepstow from springs near Kynemark
farm, which was built with many of the ruined building stone.
There
is a Church dedicated to Cynfarch at Llanfair Dyffryn, Clwyd, which
used to have a ‘Sanctus Kynvarch’ represented in a stained-glass
window (Benedictine Records, Farmer). Smashed up in the ravages of
the 17th century, precious shards have been put together and replaced
in the window. There is another church dedicated to St Cynfarch at
the Hope Parish at Flint in North Wales.
A
map dated 1828 shows St. Kynemark near Crossways Green. |
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