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At some time, possibly in the early eleventh centvury a deal was done and the saint's remains were translated to Cropredy and no doubt displayed in an elaborate shrine. The Rev. Canon Wood writing in the article 'The Forgotten Saint' in The Antiquary xxviii 1894 p. 247 said of St. Fremund's tomb, 'All traces of the shrine that might be identified with any certainty have long since disappeared in the clean sweep of such sculptures in this fine old church. A crocketed pinnacle from a tomb carved in Purbeck marble remains in a room above the vestry...'  and yes it was still there although personally I believe it to be a fragment from an earlier cross above the east gable end. A local informant suggested it might have been knocked off by the fire brigade in a war time incident in which case the Canon's fragment remains to be discovered.