The Sailors Church Multi-Cache
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Thanks to all who attempted this
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St Nicholas is the Patron Saint of sailors and is regarded as the
guardian of seamen. As a result St Nicholas’s, the Parish
Church of Liverpool located on Chapel Street, opposite the Liver
Buildings is often known as “The Sailors Church”.
The first church was built in 1360 and soon after it was granted a
license to bury the unfortunate victims of the plague in the
churchyard, as the Black Death swept across England. Tragedy
surrounds the history of this church as many years later, on Sunday
11th February 1810 it suffered its worst accident when the spire
fell from the church and killed 25 people, mainly young girls under
the age of 15 from Moorfields Charity School. A new tower and
lantern were then built between 1811 and 1815 meaning no remains of
the ancient church are now in existence.
In the 1920’s a Parish Centre was built and after an air raid
in December 1940 only this, the tower and vestries survived. Yet
again rebuilding commenced in March 1949 and the church was
consecrated on the Feast of St Luke, 18 October 1952
At high tide the River Mersey used to reach the wall which now
encloses the garden. It was only in 1767 when a dock was built on
the site of the now Liver Buildings that the river ceased to come
up as far as the church. The last burials at St Nicholas’s
occurred in 1849 after which the churchyard became a public garden
in memory of James Harrison, whose shipping company still has its
offices facing the garden.
Nowadays these gardens provide an oasis of calm in the heart of the
city's business area. Popular as a lunchtime venue on fine days, it
provides stunning views across the Mersey to the Wirral and beyond.
Looking up, you can also see a fabulous golden galleon as a
weathervane on top of the churches tall spire.
The churchyard now acts as a focal point for maritime artefacts
including a memorial to those who died in the Russian Murmansk
Convoy 1944-1945 and The Arctic Campaign of 1941 to 1945 amongst
others. There is also a memorial to the citizens of Liverpool and
Bootle who lost their lives in the Blitz of 1940 to 1942.
It is the last of these memorials (at the listed co-ordinates) to
which you must go, and answer the following questions to find the
cache:
A : How many consonants are in the sculptors’ surname ?
B : How many holes in total are there in the steps of the
staircase?
C : How many buttons on the boys waistcoat/cardigan are
unfastened?
D : In the left jacket pocket of the boy is a toy. If you could see
the whole toy this would be the shape of a capital letter. What
number of the alphabet is that letter?
E : How may steps are there on the spiral staircase?
F : How many people are depicted in the statue?
G : How many buttons on the boys waistcoat/cardigan are
fastened?
The final cache can then be found at N 53 24.NNN W 002 59.WWW
Where NNN = A * (B + C + D) and WWW = (D * E * F) - G
It is outside the churchyard where GPS reception is poor, and is
visible 7-8 feet off the ground, so unless you are tall and have
long arms, a retrieval/replacement stick (see example) may come in
very useful. This is why its difficulty 2.5
There's a small certificate in the cache for the lucky FTF!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqrepbire nobir 22000 Puvrsgnvaf naq Cnamref