All Saints Church Ladysmith Traditional Cache
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All Saints Church Ladysmith
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Quick easy cache at the All Saints church in Ladysmith
The All Saints Church in Ladysmith is a beautiful old Anglican church made of flagstone quarried from the area, and was built in 1882. The church was originally called St.Johns, and during the famous siege of Ladysmith, which took place during the Anglo-Boer war it became very popular with the military, mainly because of the sermons given by Archdeacon Barker.
Barker arrived in Ladysmith in 1857 as a curate, and was vicar from 1887 until 1906, remaining "at his post" throughout the duration of the siege. On one occasion, the Archdeacon picked up a shell just before it exploded, and threw it into a tub of water probably saving many lives. In one particular sermon the Archdeacon Barker told the congregation that it was "through ignorance and total disregard for justice that the Dutchman had landed, not only himself but also half the civilized world, in the state of war which currently existed". He went on to mention "the supposed misuse of the white flag and of bullets tipped with poison and that the military should give no quarter and that he was in no doubt who the victors would be". The congregation then sang the National Anthem and followed it with a call for "three cheers for Her Majesty the Queen".
On the 10th November 1899 the porch roof was hit by a Boer Long Tom cannon shell, which went right through and demolished the opposite wall. The hole in the iron roof sheet can still be seen today, and the base of that shell is still embedded in the wall a hundred and ten years later for all to see. As one enters the church, they will see the two stained glass windows on the wall to the left. They denote war and peace. The portion around the altar was added after the siege, and contains the names of more than three thousand British soldiers who who were killed in the defense of the town, as well as the fifty four civilians who died during the siege of Ladysmith.
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