Church Micro 2870 St Benet’s Minster, Beccles Multi-Cache
Church Micro 2870 St Benet’s Minster, Beccles
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Our first geocache placement to celebrate our first anniversary of membership and Crew Member 3’s 11th birthday. Church Micro multicaches are our favourite type of cache as the whole family can get involved looking for the clues.
The co-ordinates above are for the gates of the churchyard and parking is available on the road nearby. The final cache is located a short walk away.
This is a busy churchyard with many visitors and some very recent graves so please treat the area with respect, stay on the marked paths and avoid visiting when services are being held in the church or grounds.
All the gravestones with the answers to the clues can be seen without leaving the tarmaced paths which are suitable for wheelchairs and strollers. The last few metres on approaching the final location of the cache cannot be reached by wheelchair so assistance would be required.
St Benet’s Minster is that rare thing in Suffolk, a Catholic church with its own graveyard. The Minster, built in a Norman style, began life in 1889 when it was to be part of a new priory and presbytery to be expanded later into a small monastery. The monastery was never built but the Benedictine monks of St Gregory the Great Abbey, Downside, still serve the parish.
The land was provided by John George Kenyon, owner of the Gillingham Estate, who also established a second church, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, at Gillingham in Norfolk, about one mile outside Beccles.
The nave was completed in 1901 and the remainder in 1908. Unusually the high altar was at the southern end of the building and thus the west door actually is from the north. The Second Vatican Council led to the rearrangement of the sanctuary and the altar has been brought forward to a position under the tower.
This Multicache uses information from gravestones within the churchyard to find the co-ordinates for the final cache which can be found at: N52 AB.CDF E001 GH.JKL
A = William James Moran M.R.C.V.S. Died June 14th 19A8 Aged 41
B = Mary Anne Ellwood who died 16th March 1920 Aged 5B years
C = Robert William Snowden. Died November 24th 19C8 Aged 75 years
D = Blanche May O’Reilly Who died at Papua British New Guinea April Dth 1920
F = Captain Herbert Throckmorton R.N. who died January 1st 1941 Aged 6F years
G = Hugh Richard Clark. Died October 2Grd 1929 Aged 62 years
H = Francis Kearns Died March H0th 1915 Aged 56 Years
J = O.S.M. Died February 12th 1913 Aged 7J In the 52nd year of her religious profession
K = Agnes Mary Banham who died November 28th 193K Aged 73 years
L = Mary Holland Died March 29th 192L Aged 58 years
You are looking for a micro container containing a log book only so please bring a pen. A log removal tool may also be useful.
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
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Jura lbh ernpu TM, jurer jbhyqa'g lbh or noyr gb tb va n jurrypunve?
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