Part of the Church Micro series started by sadexploration in November 2007
The cache is not at the published coordinates, but instead you find a memorial.
The church has a car park – otherwise it’s a short stroll from the nearby public car park for the small parade of shops.
To find the cache you will need to note the number of times which these surnames appear, and those numbers are the letters for calculating the cache’s coordinates:
Burgess = A
Dann = B
Staplehurst = C
Stevens = D
Harland = E
The cache is located a short walk away at:
N50.(C+E)(A+B+C+D+E).0(A+D)3
E000.(A-E)7.(A*C)4(D-B) (* = Multiply!)
St. Luke’s Church in small brick church in Stone Cross designed by A J Hodgeman in 1924-25, the building was completed in 1929 as a chapelry of Westham. It sadly became derelict in 1974 after struggling to find a congregation, and stood unused until 1988 when, because of extensive local housing development, it was re-opened.
The church is long and low, combining half-timbered gables and tile-hanging with domestic-style windows that are almost continuous along the sides. The central lantern-tower with a tiled base and pyramid-spire provides the only vertical emphasis and the bell is hung on the west gable beneath an extension of the roof. The interior is a single space, spanned by a boarded roof supported on small hammerbeams and the plain fittings of the chancel date from 1988 or later. Above the five-light east window with a square head is a cross, cut through the wall and glazed; this could date from the renovations. The east end and much of the north side are now enveloped in a sizeable complex comprising a hall and other parish rooms, which was completed in 2002.
The cache contains a log only, without room for swaps or TBs – You will need to bring your own pen.
Congratulations to SEADOWN on the FTF!
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For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him at churchmicro@gmail.com.
See also the Church Micro Statistics and Home pages for further information about the series.
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