Church Micro 5883...St Blazey Gate Multi-cache
Church Micro 5883...St Blazey Gate
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A straightforward multi-cache set around Leek Seed Chapel in St Blazey Gate. The headline co-ords are for the start point.
The cache is not located within the church grounds.
Stage 1
Stand at the big front door to the church. To your left, you will see the stone for William Stephens “The Old Gardener”. He was the founder of this chapel and responsible for its unusual name (more information about why this is called Leek Seed Chapel available below)
The dates on the vertical stone = A74B – CD22.
Stage 2
Now go round the church building to the eastern wall of the chapel (the wall furthest from the front door). On the ground floor here you will find a pair of stained glass windows with red and green panes of glass in them.
The number of red panes in each window = E.
The total number of red panes in both windows = F. N.B., This number is E doubled!
The cache is hidden at:
N50° EA.B(D+C)B W004° FF.BFC
It can be accessed via the Footpath waypoint provided
About the Church
Leek Seed Chapel derives its name from this extraordinary story – In the early 1800′s a local preacher named William (Gardener) Stephens led the fund-raising to build a new chapel near St. Blazey in Cornwall.
Unfortunately, three Oxford students who were opponents of Methodism, decided it would be a great prank to steal the funds!
One midnight they crept into Gardener Stephens’ cottage, only to find him sitting on his bed reading his Bible by candle-light. “Give us the money and no harm shall befall you” they announced. “The Lord is my defence. You shall have no money from me, for all that is in this house is the Lord’s. Take it from me if you dare!” replied the old man.
The students could easily have overpowered the old man, but before they could do anything noticed that on the table was a huge pile of black powder – gunpowder and the old man stood over it with a steel and flint in his hands. “Repent and be saved.” he demanded “or soon you will be in another world.” The students immediately offered their well -filled purses in exchange for their lives. But then the old man had them kneel and pray, offering thanks to the Lord for delivering them from sin. Next he had them stand and sing with him the full 100th Psalm. The students then fled.
The following Sunday evening, William Stephens was to preach in the nearby barn which served as a temporary chapel. The students were curious and mingled with the crowds of worshippers. Gardener Stephens’ address was short but exultant, relating how an attempt had been made to steal the chapel funds, but the robbers had fled leaving their purses which contained almost sufficient funds to build their new chapel. Then he added with great drama “But they had not smelt powder like the old soldier they had come to rob – it was a large heap enough to frighten General Clive himself – but it was ……………instead my whole year’s stock of …………leek seed!”
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