Church Micro 4535…Balderton-St Giles Traditional Geocache

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The_Thorns: After many years, someone has decided that they don't like the idea of a cache here. I have made numerous replacement containers, and even a completely new one for a different hide location. But all have disapeared. It has eventually worn me down, so good luck if anyone else wants to make a go of it.

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Hidden : 10/6/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

There is no need to enter the church grounds to complete this cache. Originally placed with kind permission of St Giles church PCC, but due to repeated issues the location has now moved across the road.

St Giles church offers much of interest inside and out. Its two Norman porches are among the finest in the shire and are of Late Norman work. That on the north side was rebuilt 700 years ago and is notable for its ornamentation and its two doors. The outer one was originally at the inner end. Both are fine specimens of early woodwork, and the church is one of the few which can yet show ancient images in niches over the doorway.



The chancel is Early English, as is the arcading on the north side and probably the north aisle, but the deep three-light window in the south wall was an insertion of the 15th century to improve the lighting. The lower portion of the tower was commenced in the early part of the 14th century, and its base suggests that a taller structure was designed; its completion may have been stayed by the Black Death (1349), and when its erection was resumed a century later, the tower was left low and provided with its spire. The beautiful carved oak screen dates from about 1475, and if (as is alleged) the pulpit is of the same period it must rank with that at Wysall as the only two pre-Reformation pulpits in Notts. Space forbids recital of other notable features, but passing mention must be made of the 42 old benches of 15th century workmanship, whose "poppy-heads" have carvings of couples of hares or rabbits hung head downward.


(Acknowledgment is given to the website Nottinghamshire History, its authors and editors for the kind permission to use the above information.)
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/default.htm


If you look closely at the stained glass windows you can find 3 that are more montage than picture. During the Civil War soldiers smashed the medieval stained glass windows and the pieces were found years later buried in the grounds. Not enough pieces were found to make up the original windows, so the made a collage.

While you are at ground zero, you will probably have noticed that you are at an old chapel, built in 1862 as a Primitive Methodist Chapel; it was extended to include a Schoolroom in 1889

The chapel was used until 1968 when the church amalgamated with the one on Main Street; this building was then bought by the Parish Council for use as a Council meeting hall. And since then has been a violin making school.


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