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Church Micro 6611...Hardington Multi-Cache

Hidden : 10/20/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Here you will find my 50th Church Micro. A milestone I think!

Your looking for a very small container, bring your own pen and tweezers would be useful. At GZ the bridge is unsafe? though the missing sleepers are obvious but take care. Tractors do use it so it should be fine but in the time the cache has been there I've seen various sleepers missing then replaced.


There is a sign for the church at N 51 16.174 W 2 22.329 directing you up a farm track. I can find no information that you are able to drive up to it, I parked up on the wide verge opposite the sign and walked up to the church, the related web page link has much info. including visitors comments etc.



At the page coordinates note an introduction sign at the entrance to the church upon it you need to note the sentence in red font and count the number of letters in each word and call those numbers A,B,C,D.
The cache is not at the above co-ordinates use the puzzle below to calculate the co-ordinates to locate it.
N 51, 16.2 (C - B)/2) (C - B) - (A + B) W 002, 22. 3 D (A + B) + D/3).

Updated due to damage to sign: Note the sign by the track at the published coordinates. Count the number of letters in each word on the top line of text and call those numbers A, B, C, D.
The cache is at:
N51 16.2A(B-D-A) W002 22.3(A*A)(C-A)


So onto the church description.

The Church of St Maryat Hardington in the parish of Hemington Somerset, England, dates from the 11th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

The church has an un-aisled nave and small west tower which dates from the late 14th century. In the 19th century the earlier chancel was largely rebuilt. The parish of Hardington was formed in the Middle Ages and merged into Hemington in 1733.

It is no longer used as a church and has been in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund since 1972.

The interior of the church includes fragments of medieval wall paintings and a board painted with the arms of Charles I

HEMINGTON CP ST75SW HARDINGTON 6/95 Church of St. Mary 11.3.68 - I

Anglican Church, now redundant. C11, C15. Coursed rubble and ashlar. Stone- tiled roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower. Externally mostly in the Decorated style. Rubble built nave of 2 bays with late C14 2-light windows with cusped heads and carved heads as stops. Two-stage buttresses. Semi-circular headed doorway with emphasised key, plank door with elaborate iron hinges. Single bay chancel dating mostly from 1858-9 in ashlar but the north wall is in the late C14 style with 3-lights and a label with carved floral stops. Coped verges with gable crosses to both roofs. Very small embattled two-stage tower, the bottom apparently of the C12 the upper stage of the C14 with one C14 window inserted below. All ashlar with corner pinnacles. Gargoyles. Single light built chamber windows to west with a niche for a statue. The interior has a plastered wagon roof probably C16 with ribs, bosses and moulded wall plates but there has been some alteration. Probably C12 chancel arch slightly stilted with columns missing. Set of C18 box pews and pulpit all with fielded panelling. C18 altar rails with turned balusters and ramped ends. Fragments of medieval painted plaster. C12 tub font. Stone flagged floor. Painted Royal Arms of 1640. Wall monuments and tablets to members of the Bamfylde family. An attractive church with good work from a variety of periods and much medieval work. In the care of the Redundant Churches Fund.



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ba n Oevqtr Tveqre boivbhf cynax zvffvat.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)