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Hidden : 7/13/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Mittagong

A drive by micro with St Stephens Anglician Church as the backdrop.The cache is outside the church grounds and their is parking around.

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Take the time to look around the church and the surrounds afterwards well worth it.

Whilst not the oldest Anglican Church building in the Southern Highlands, St Stephens has a rich history. The church was built in a number of stages beginning in 1878 and completed in 1968. Before the current building was used for worship, a church building of bark and slab construction was erected about 1850 in the area known as Rowes Hill, near where the present Marist Brothers complex stands on Old South Road. This was replaced in 1862 by a stone building on the same site, both buildings serving as a church and a school. A portion of the foundation stone of the stone church, found being used as a door stop in a local home, was recovered and incorporated into the porch which was added to the present building in 1928. Services in the old stone church ceased about 1873 as the centre of population moved to the present area of Mittagong.

Edmund Thomas Blacket, the diocesan architect was commissioned to design a building to be erected on land given by the Fitzroy Iron Mines Company. The foundation stone was laid on 9th November 1876, and the building was completed on 11th November 1878, at a cost of 1,333 pounds 11 shillings and 7 pence ($2667.16). The western porch was added in 1879, and in 1928 extensions were commenced in the Jubilee year, with the arch at the eastern end of the building being donated by Frensham School. This arch was originally a temporary weatherboard wall, but was replaced in 1968 with the present timber framed glass wall, together with an entrance foyer at the east end of the building.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guvax bhgfvqr gur obk

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)