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Church Micro
#461
All Saints,
Graveney
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Free parking available
either outside the church, or nearby. |
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The path towards the
cache from the road is tarmac, but gates must be passed through to
reach it. The cache itself is just off a public
footpath. |
All Saints Church, Graveney is located in the village of
Graveney, some 2 miles north east of Faversham. The
connection between the village of Graveney and the Christian Church
can be traced back to a time before the Domesday Survey.
In 811 Canulph, King of Mercia, who had also made a successful
take over bid for the Kingdom of Kent, sold the manor of Graveney
to Wilfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, for the use of Christ Church,
Canterbury.
The Domesday Survey records the manor as being ‘Terre militum
Archieni’ (land held of the Archbishop by knights service) and
tenanted by the de Gravene family.
The construction of the church building in terms of style and
material sets it in the mid 12th century.
Visitors to the church can see evidence of the Christian
congregation over the centuries and trace the history of the
village and people.
Many have asked about the box pews. They were installed in 1823
but they took up a great deal of space and were found to be
uncomfortable so, by 1925 there were moves to replace them with
chairs. The cost of chairs was prohibitive at £1 4s 6d each,
an expense way beyond the Church Council at that time. So the box
pews remained.
The churchyard at All Saints is well kept; there are sweeping
views across the marshes back towards Faversham, north to Seasalter
and east towards Boughton Hill. It is a stopping off point on many
footpaths and benefits from having the use of the adjacent Alfreda
Boggia Memorial car park.
(Source of background information:
www.faversham.org)
There is no pen inside this cache, please bring your
own!
Please ensure the cache is replaced weighted down as found.
Thanks to
Unknown Hero for supplying this cache, one of the seeds from
his cache
From Little Acorns.
If anybody would like to expand this Church Micro series, please
do. All we would ask is that you let
sadexploration
know first, so that he can keep track of the numbers and names to
avoid duplication. Please also include a variation of this
sentence in your cache description. |