Church Micro 7039...Denton - St Mary the Virgin Traditional Cache

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Church Micro 7039...Denton - St Mary the Virgin

This cache was originally part of the 2014 Advent Series (Advent 18th – Denton St Mary the Virgin ) You are looking for a camo micro. Please BYOP and a suitable log extractor such as tweezers. The best place to park is the Church Car Park and then walk through the graveyard. Norfolk contains the greatest concentration of medieval churches in the world. They were built largely as a result of the vast wealth created by wool. Of the 921 that were originally built, 659 remain: a testament to their skilful construction from flint – one of the most unforgiving materials, in a region devoid of freestone. Denton's church includes the remains of a Norman round tower so was certainly there in the 12th century but probably has older, Saxon, origins. Most of the building is later, 14th century, and the current mainly brick-built tower replaced most of its round predecessor following a collapse in the 16th century. However parts of the original tower remain so it is one of 185 round tower churches in England (126 in Norfolk). The church is flint built with stone dressings and slate roofs. The chancel is late 13th c. with a 5-light east window with intersecting tracery. The north and south chancel windows have Y-tracery. The north and south aisles are Perpendicular in style with Decorated east and west windows.

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