Church Micro 3511... Bury St Edmunds - St Peter Traditional Cache
Church Micro 3511... Bury St Edmunds - St Peter
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This church holds many happy memories for us, we were married there in 2001.
You are looking for a custom magnetic cache, a little larger than 35mm pot, only room for the logbook. The cache is not hidden in the church yard. There are parking restrictions between 09.00 - 17.00 most days.
St Peter was built as a mission outstation of the vast church of St Mary, and still has a sign saying 'St Peter's District Church' outside, as well as lots of notices giving evidence of its evangelical flavour. It is also quite big - yellow banded brick and Suffolk flint of the 1850s, with a tower that serves as a south porch in the Ipswich manner, surmounted by a sturdy spire that is more from the Midlands.
The architect was John Hakewill, brother of the more famous Edward. John's major moment in Suffolk is the rebuilding of Thurston, but I prefer this one, despite the fact that it isn't particularly in the Suffolk style, apart from the flint. It has a wide graveyard that must have been beautiful at one time - unfortunately, if there were ever any gravestones, every single one has been removed, and the whole thing grassed over as a playing field for the adjacent St Mary's School, which has now closed.
Courtesy of Simon Knott and www.suffolkchurches.co.uk
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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.
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