Church Micro 2434 Selling Traditional Cache
Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache, I'm archiving it.
Andy
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Church Micro 2434 Selling
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The earliest mention of a church on this site is in 1054, when it was granted to the Benedictine abbey known as St Augustine’s Canterbury.
The Domesday Book mentions the building, and the grand survey of 1086 indicated a church on the same alignment as now with a chancel, a nave and a tower. However, by 1190 a larger structure had replaced the original and parts of this building, namely the west wall, the tower and the chancel, are still standing.
The nave was rebuilt around 1300 and decorative battlements and windows added around 1450. The monks of St Augustine's, during their 493 years of ownership were responsible for almost every architectural feature that we see today, including the graceful pillars and the fine arcaded chancel.
The present church is cruciform in plan comprising nave, central tower, two transepts three chancels and north and south aisles. In the late 15th century the tower was raised one storey and given additional support with arches in the Perpendicular style.
There was little alteration then until the middle of the 19th century, except for removal of the stone altar, a rood loft and chancel screens and the erection around 1700 of a singers gallery at the west end of the church.
In the 1840s and 1850s various improvements and adaptations were carried out and an organ placed in the west gallery (see music at Selling) - moved to its present position in the south transept by 1850. In 1852 the west porch was rebuilt and a south porch added. The west gallery too was removed and replaced by an elaborate mural monument under a Gothic canopy.
The cache is not in the church grounds but is nearby.
Please bring a pencil for the log. If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication. There is also a Church Micro Stats page found via the Bookmark list.
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