Editing Waltham Abbey Church (section)

===Legend of the  Holy Cross===
At the beginning of the 11th century, the church and manor of Waltham were held by an Anglo-Danish [[thegn]] called [[Tovi the Proud]]. A legend, recorded in the 12th-century ''De Inventione Sanctœ Crucis Nostrœ'' ("The Discovery of our Holy Cross") or "Waltham Chronicle", relates that, in about 1016, the blacksmith at another estate belonging to Tovi, at [[Montacute]] near [[Glastonbury]], found a large black flint (or marble) [[crucifix]] buried at the top of a hill, after a dream. Tovi had the cross loaded onto an [[Bullock cart|ox-cart]], but the oxen would only go in one direction and continued every day until they reached Waltham, a  journey of some 150 miles.<ref>{{cite book |title=Waltham Chronicle |last= Watkiss |first=Leslie   |first2=Marjorie   |last2=Chibnall   |year=1994 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> This [[Holyrood (cross)|Holy Rood]] or Cross was
installed at the church and soon became the subject of pilgrimage.<ref name="britannia">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannia.com/church/waltham.html|title=Waltham Abbey|publisher=britannia.com|access-date=2014-06-06}}</ref>  Tovi is said to have rebuilt the church, but modern evidence suggests that he probably retained the 8th-century fabric of the building.