Parking is available in the street outside the church and in adjoining roads.
The church grounds are wheelchair-friendly, though sloping, and the cache itself is easily accessible to wheelchair users.
The cache is magnetic and larger than a nano but smaller than a film cannister. You will need to bring a pen and might find tweezers useful - and you will need to be stealthful. The church is situated within close proximity to other caches so it was difficult to find a suitable hiding place!
Church History
St Luke's church ministry covers the Countess Wear area of Exeter and it is partnered with St Margaret's church at Topsham.
The church was originally built in 1838 at a cost of £900 but was then only a Chapel of Ease, whereby it could be used for public worship but not for marriages or funerals, which had to take place at the nearby Topsham church. It became a parish church in its own right in 1884, thus allowing Countess Wear to become a separate ecclesiastical parish. Extensions costing £1200 were carried out in 1895.
Question 1. The total number of letters in the third, fourth and fifth words at the top of the Church Noticeboard by the gates is A, and the total number of lamps on the columns by the gates and on the plinth inside the gate is B
Question 2. At the seat by the church door - Bill Matlock was born in month C and died in month D.
Question 3. At the seat along the path to the left of the church building - Hettie Hawkins was born in 19EF and died in 200G.
Checksum of A to G = 29
The cache can be found at
N50 ( C - G) (A - F) . (B - D) (B x G) (D + G)
W003 (F - G) (A - [D + F]) . (E+E) (B - G) (D x D)
“If anybody would like to expand this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication. There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page found via the Bookmark list”