Church Micro 4592…Upton Warren Multi-Cache
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Church Micro 4592…Upton Warren
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To find the cache, make a note of the five words underneath 'The Parish Of' on the Notice Board at the headline co-ordinates and call them A, B, C, D and E (number of letters in each word, ignore the &) Use them in the following formula N 52 18. (A+B+C+D) W 002 06. [(A+B)*10)]*D + (E-B)
A church probably existed here at the time of the Domesday Survey, but was rebuilt towards the end of the 13th century and consecrated in 1300. The whole structure except the tower was rebuilt in the 18th century, the chancel in 1724 and the nave in 1798. The tower, which is of two stages, is evidently a late 14th-century rebuilding. The tower arch has a pointed head of two orders. The south window of the ground stage is of the same date, and has two gee-headed lights with a quatrefoil above; a similar window on the east side has been filled in. In the west wall is a small circular light with a segmental rear arch, and below the offset on the south side is as mall lancet window. The windows to the bell-chamber, which have evidently been reset, are survivals from the earliest building on the site and date from circa 1220. Each has two trefoiled lancets enclosed by an outer order with a two-centred drop arch; the spandrel above the lancets is pierced by a trefoil. The embattled parapet is probably modern, and from it rises an octagonal stone spire of ashlar work. The furniture is modern, the font being octagonal with panelled sides. The east window contains some remarkable modern glass. In the chancel are several slabs, one to John Hill, son of John Hill, rector, and Sarah his wife, died 1667, aged six years, and another to the above-mentioned (rector for more than forty years), died 1699. In the nave is a mural monument to John Sanders, died 1670. There are three bells: the first by John Martin of Worcester, 1653; the second by William Brooke of Bromsgrove, 1743; the third by John Greene the younger of Worcester, 1618; this last bears his mark, three bells and I. G. The plate includes a large Elizabethan cup and cover paten of the usual type, with the hall-mark and inscription of 1571.
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