Rougham St. Mary is a large 15th century church with some 19th century latter additions. Its grand exterior has a rather fine tower with some splendid flint flushwork below the merlons. This flushwork contains dedicated inscriptions apparently asking us to pray for the souls of the benefactor's of the tower. The church is usually open for visitors in daylight hours and is well worth a look inside due to its late medieval hammerbeam roof, stain glass windows and a fine 15th century brass of Sir Roger Drury and his wife.
The cache co-ordinates can be found by working out the clues to the following questions. The answers to the clues are easily visible from the gravel paths and are not contained on any of the grave stones so there is no need to trample across any of the graves.
Cache co-ordinates: N52 13.ABC E000 47.DEF
1. How many finials are there on the tower minus 1 will give you A
2. The Rector Morton Shaw was made Rector in 185B
3. Count up the sets of '4 pointers' on the chancel roof and take away 5 this will give you C
4. The last numeral of 'Clarksteel's' out dated text messaging system will give you D.
5. How many gargoyles are there on the east side of the south porch, this will give you E
6. Add up all the Roman numerals including the year for 'Bert and Maud' and take away 2021 to give you F
The foot path to the cache can be a bit muddy when wet and as there is a kissing gate along the way it may not be suitable for buggies and push chairs.
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
To view the church micro stats page, please click here.
The cache is placed by kind permission of the land owners, Rougham Estates.
Congratulations to 'barbycats' for the 'First to Find'!