Church Micro 8099...Claverton Multi-Cache
Church Micro 8099...Claverton
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Here you will find my 54th Church Micro. Your looking for a small clip top container.
At the page coordinates look for a head stone to Albert John Feasey and his Dear Wife Dorothy.
Upon it you need to note the numbers of the two dates call these, A,B, February C,D,E,F, & G,H, March I, J, K, L
The cache is not at the above co-ordinates use the puzzle below to calculate the co-ordinates to locate it.
N 51 22.6(B-A+F-G-F) (D-E+A+F) W 002 18.3 (l-J-K) (D+E+F+k+C+G)
BEWARE the cache is now located adjacent to a main road not really child friendly.
. I was contacted by the cacher Pussypot to say.
"Ade, I have done a lot of Church Micro's I am unable to do one of my own and I was wondering if you could place one in St Mary's Claverton Bath, I care for a boy (Stephen) who's family are buried in this churchyard, It would make his day if you used his family name (Albert Feasey)."
So of course I could, then soon after the A36 got shut for repairs, blocking a quick route to GZ in my lunch hour to meet up and place the cache and get the info.
So an email came containing the following.
I have not told Stephen, so it will be a great surprise for him, all Stephen's family are buried there, (Albert Feasey is in the top section), Stephen's father Albert wound the church clock every week for 50 years until it was changed to electric in the 1990's.
In memory of his mum and Dad we had the hand rail erected.
Just giving you a bit of history of the family.
Then not long ago I met up with Pussypot and we toured the church environs and what a treat it is much history and even the tomb of Bath's famous resident Ralph Allen. I took the photo's below to illustrate the church.
So on to the church description,
CLAVERTON 7/44 St. Mary's Church 1.2.56 II G.V. Anglican Parish Church. C13, altered C15; heavily restored and rebuilt with exception of transept, by Manners and Gill of Bath 1858; north transept later C19 and vestry 1891. West tower, nave with north transept, south porch, chancel with north aisle and vestry. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings; plain tiled roof over chancel and slate roof to nave behind an embattled parapet. West tower is the only substantial mediaeval part of the church; of 3 stages with off-sets on north and south sides, 2 stages to the west; saddleback roof set back behind plain parapet; 3-light C19 Perpendicular style west window; 2-light bell chamber window with lattice tracery. Nave: 3-light C19 Perpendicular style window with 4-centred head; decorative lead hopper dated 1628 (from the old manor); buttress at east end. Projecting gabled south porch, with chamfered outer doorway. Chancel: rood stair projection at south-west; two 2-light C19 Perpendicular style windows and central priest's door; C19 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. Perpendicular style windows to north transept and chapel. Interior: almost entirely mid - late C19. Wave and hollow moulded arch to north transept and chapel. Pulpit: C19 in a Perpendicular style. Font: 1866, marble; square top with relief panels on columns with foliate heads. Glass: North transept window has Flemish roundels of Tobit greeting Tobias, St. Peter with keys and a book, the Good Samaritan and a nun and whield emblazoned with a heart; the central panel depicts the Taking of Christ, early C14, ogee arch with heads of David and Solomon in spandrels; outer panels of arms of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, probably early - mid C19 copies. Nave, south side, nimbed head of a man and 2 small shields of arms dated 1558 with a helm and mantling. Monuments. Chancel: William Bassett, died 1613, 2 frontal half-figures of Bassett and wife with baby, coloured marbles, Corinthian pilasters and arms above in pedimental fields; Richard Graves, died 1804 by T. King of Bath, marble inscribed plaque and draped urn over. Nave: James Clutterbuck, died 1776, inscribed marble tablet, draped woman on an urn, in an aedicular surround. North transept: William Skrine, died 1725, inscribed marble tablet in aedicular surround with segmental head. Hedges funeral hatchment in Nave and monument to Thomas Hedges, died 1798, in Tower. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958. C. Woodforde, The Stained Glass of Somerset, 1946).
ST 76 SE CLAVERTON 7/45 Mausoleum to Ralph Allen, in church- yard to south of St. Mary's Church G.V. II* Mausoleum to Ralph Allen of Prior Park and Claverton, died 1764, and probably by Robert Parsons. A square ashlar structure with 3 arches on square piers and moulded imposts on each side (the spaces are now infilled with railings. Pyramidal stone slab roof behind ashlar parapet, moulded cornice. Inside the pyramid is vaulted; in the centre is a chest tomb with inscribed marble sides, moulded plinth and cornice. The mausoleum is raised on 2 steps. Pevsner states that it is known that Parsons showed the designs to Allen the day before the latter died. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol).
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