Church Micro 2971…Burton Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Team Gruffalo: Just checked on cache and it has indeed gone walkies. I am archiving due to other commitments including maintaining my other caches including my R.S Series. Thanks to all that logged a find on this cache.

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Hidden : 9/6/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Please note: The cashe is NOT at these co-ords, you need to find the information from the Gave of our Grandparents (below) to work out the Co-ords for the cache. HISTORY: The foundation stone was laid on April 15, 1874, and the church was opened in 1876. Benjamin Ferrey (1810-80) was a well-known Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of A.C. Pugin, knew his son, the great A.W.N. Pugin, and became his biographer (1861). Ferrey set up in independent practice in about 1834. He was the diocesan architect to Bath and Wells from 1841 until his death, and undertook much work in that diocese. He worked in partnership with his son E.B. Ferrey in his later years.


MATERIALS: Red brick (English bond), with limestone dressings, probably Bath stone. Blue slate roofs.

PLAN: Small nave with south porch, south transept and vestry to its east, short chancel. A projected north transept and two-bay enlargement of the chancel were not built.

EXTERIOR: The style is early Gothic. The gabled west end faces the village green, and has a simple bellcote, and two pairs of lancets each with a small oculus above. They are divided by a central buttress. The two-light nave windows have an oculus, this time in plate tracery. At the last bay of the nave on the north side is a dressed stone arch filled by a temporary wall where a transept was planned. The east wall was also intended as a temporary wall; it has three even lancets and an oculus in the gable.

INTERIOR: The interior is brick-faced, with bands of dressed stone linking the windows at sill level and at the springing point of the arches. There is a broad transverse arch close to the roof line west of the transept; the slightly lower chancel arch springs from corbels below the abaci. The roof is timber panelled, of mansard shaped section, with semicircular trusses on corbels. Flooring not known (carpeted).

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The east wall has a full-width reredos of stone, doubtless by Ferrey, with a flat top at sill level, and at the ends, higher pointed arches. Recessed panels are painted with the Creed, Lord's Prayer, Commandments etc., and some diaper patterning. The font is in 13th century style, with an octagonal bowl on grey marble clustered shafts. Oak pulpit with blank traceried arches, foliate spandrels and a deep foliage frieze at the top. The triple east window and the west window have stained glass signed by T.F. Curtis of Ward & Hughes, 1899-1900. The nave and transept have cathedral glass in attractive pale blue, green and pink. Beneath the west window is a marble war memorial in three tablets forming a cross. The nave has the original bench pews of unstained oak. The choir stall fronts and communion rail are unobtrusive 20th century additions.





There is plenty of local parking on roads. PLEASE be aware final location IS in a HIGH muggle area and the difficulty will reflect this. you will need to work out the final co's from this: Violet 192A-19BC age DE James 192F-2002 age GH N50.45.(B-G)(C+A)(ExF) W001.45.(D+F)H(B-D) Check Sum = 50

“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)

Tenir ybpngvba, SNE evtug, 7 onpx 2 va. Ab uvag sbe pnpur ybpngvba rkprcg vg'f ybpngrq jvguva 4 sbbg sebz ebnq. (naq ab vg'f abg gur ohf furygre)

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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