Campanology Cache - St Michael and All Angels Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/14/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

St Michael and All Angels, Macclesfield.

The cache is a small magnetic nano. Access is possible from outside of the church grounds. Please replace the cache exactly where found.

Stealth required as site is in the busy town centre. The site is especially busy during the monthly Treacle Market.

The immediate area is pedestrianised; Parking available in local public car parks behind the town hall on Jordangate, or in the Multistory car park further down Jordangate.
FTF credits go to KAKY1

History

A chapel was founded on this site soon after the borough was established around 1220. This was extended or rebuilt, as All Hallows or All Saints, around 1278 by Queen Eleanor, the wife of King Edward I.

It has been rebuilt several times, most recently in 1901. However a number of important additions remain from earlier times, especially the Legh and Savage chapels, and several memorials.
The Legh chapel was built around 1442 to receive the body of Sir Piers Legh who fought at Agincourt and died later in the same campaign.
The Savage Chapel, a much larger chantry chapel, was built between 1505 and 1507 by Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York.

The church was rebuilt in Georgian style in 1740, following a long period of neglect.

A final rebuild took place from 1898 to 1901, this time in Victorian Gothic, except for the still surviving chapels. This present church was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and built of local stone from Teggs Nose, except for the tower which was partly rebuilt from the stone of the previous church.


A further reordering, known as Open Door Phase 1, took place between June 2003 and May 2004 to provide a welcome area(Narthex), meeting rooms and an office at the West End. A second phase followed in which the room to the South East of the building was equipped as a Youth Centre.

The tower has a fine ring of 12 bells which are rung prior to Sunday worship, at weddings and on other occasions. In 2014 the clappers were refurbished.

Bell,Weight,Nominal,Note,Diameter,Cast,Founder,Canons

1,5-0-5,1733.0,A,25.13",1923,John Taylor & Co,B

2,5-1-11,1544.0,G,26.25",1923,John Taylor & Co,B

3,4-3-15,1458.0,F#,26.50",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

4,4-3-15,1298.0,E,28.00",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

5,5-1-9,1157.0,D,29.50",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

6,6-1-27,1091.0,C#,31.25",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

7,7-0-2,972.0,B,33.00",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

8,8-2-23,865.0,A,36.13",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

9,11-2-16,772.0,G,40.00",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

10,14-0-5,728.0,F#,42.38",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

11,18-1-15,650.0,E,46.88",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

12,26-0-21,579.0,D,52.88",1923,John Taylor & Co,F

Website:

http://www.stmichaels-macclesfield.com/

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

bcravat gvzrf

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)


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