Church Micro 8091..Southwark - Most Precious Blood Multi-cache
Church Micro 8091..Southwark - Most Precious Blood
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Church Micro 8091...Southwark - Most Precious Blood
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Please ensure cache is well hidden and camouflaged afterwards.
Location Information
The Catholic Parish of the Most Precious Blood was founded in 1891 by Bishop Butt when he received a bequest of £10,000 (this is equivalent to just over £1m today). The parish covers the Borough, which is just south of the City of London and next to London Bridge Station.
Until December 2012, the Parish had been served for thirty years by the Society of the Divine Saviour (otherwise known as Salvatorians). In January 2013 the Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, gave the care of the Parish to the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
The architect of the Church was Frederick Arthur Walters (1849–1931 who built this in the Romanesque Revival style. Walters was a pupil of George Goldie and, like Goldie, developed an extensive practice designing Catholic Churches. Walters’ best known works are the Abbeys at Buckfast and Ealing but he was the architect of over fifty Churches in a variety of styles. Within the Archdiocese of Southwark he was responsible for many Churches from the intimate St Wilfrid, Kennington (1914-15) through to the magnificent Sacred Heart, Wimbledon (1884-87). He also designed the Seminary at Wonersh (1891).
On the old bridge that stood there at the time a major battle took place between the pagan Vikings and the Christian Saxons, with the latter’s victory securing the Christian future of the land. Near the bridge, many years later, a Saxon convent was built and, later still, the great church of St Mary Overie which stands there to this day has now become the Anglican cathedral for this area.
The church in the 1890's was serving what was then a largely Irish congregation associated with the local hop industry. The hops – the central ingredient in beer – arrived by the trainload from the Kent hopfields.
When Pope Benedict XVI announced Anglicanorum Coetibus, inviting groups of Anglicans to come into full communion with Rome, bringing with them their traditions, their music, their patrimony, the parish of St Agnes at Kennington was quick to respond. And, after some weeks and months of homelessness and uncertainty, they were finally given this church – a parish where numbers were dwindling and a building which local gossip had said was destined for closure.
Since then the church has been cleaned up, sacristy renewed with a fine old “lantern” ceiling which was discovered behind some modern tiles, new heating has been installed and the choir gallery restored to use, a shrine to Bl. John Henry Newman (patron of the Ordinariate) installed.
To find the cache you will need to answer the follow questions to solve the puzzle:
Answers are taken from outside the church and not any web site
Check the questions carefully - Q6 seems to be causing the most problems with users.
Q1 = Number of small panes of glass 'across' on one of the two smaller windows over the wooden door = A.
Q2 = Time of the Holy Days = B:CD(pm).
Q3 = Number of Large Keys over the top of the wooden door = E.
Q4 = Number of complete small glass panels on bottom row of larger pane of glass over wooden door = F.
Q5 = Number of small panes of glass 'up' on one of the smaller windows over the wooden door = G.
Q6 = Number of solo bolts (painted or unpainted) on the left of the main wooden doors = H.
Solve the puzzle to find the physical cache:
N 51.(A)(D).(E)(B-E)(G)
W 000 (C)(H-1).(B+1)(F-B)(E)
Please DO NOT post spoiler logs or put spoiler pictures in the gallery!
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