For whom the bells toll Traditional Cache
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Permission for this cache has been granted and is placed in the actual bell tower of Tydd St Giles cemetery,Cambridgeshire.
The tower itself is approx 20 feet away from a public footpath through the church grounds.
To find the cache please go into the tower grounds (you do not need to climb any stairs etc as the door will be locked) and look for a bricked up window.The cache can be easily removed without disturbing anything.
GOOD LUCK-This is my very first cache!
+++++ PLEASE USE YOUR OWN PEN OR PENCIL+++++
When you have finished why not visit the local ,friendly pub, "The Crown & Mitre"in Hocklands Road and slake your thirst. Their home-made pies are delicious too. Go out the church main gate,turn right to village centre then turn left into Hockland Road and the pub is about one minutes walk down on the left.
Church Background
The church of ST. GILES consists of clerestoried nave, aisles, north porch, and detached south-east tower. It is of early 13th-century origin, to which period the chancel arch, nave arcades, and two lower stages of the tower belong. The aisles were rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century and the porch added, and at the end of the 15th century the clerestory was rebuilt and raised and another stage added to the tower. The chancel, originally 50 ft. long by 20 ft. wide, was completely destroyed in a gale in 1741. It was rebuilt in a shortened form and debased style the following year, but the 18th-century building was taken down in the 19th-century restoration and not replaced. This restoration was begun in 1868 by the rector, Canon John Scott, under the direction of his brother, Sir Gilbert Scott the architect. The whole church was refloored and re-seated, the nave re-roofed, screens provided for the vestries, and the musicians' gallery at the west end taken down. The tower was strengthened in 1888, and the organ installed in place of a harmonium about the same time.
The position of the tower, about 50 ft. to the southeast of the church, is probably due to the necessity of obtaining a firm ground for the foundations. It may be paralleled at Terrington St. Clement and West Walton (Norf.), and Fleet and Long Sutton (Lincs.). in the marshland. As at West Walton and Long Sutton, and also at certain churches in the Isle, e.g. Littleport and March, the tower rested on open arches which have now been filled in.
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