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Church Micro 3498...Hainford - All Saints Multi-Cache

Hidden : 7/16/2016
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A Church Micro Puzzle in our village.

A wander around and round the grounds of the church, which has recently been cleaned and renovated.

Counting as you go, no gravestones to concern you. The final location is not in the church grounds.


Final location can be found at: -

North AB CD.EFG; East U VW.XYZ

N (No. of studs in wood on doors) = AB

((No. of gate spikes x3) plus 1) = CD

((No. door studs x 9) minus 1) = EFG

E (No. bells) = U

(No. all low-level wall vents, plus (n.o drain pipes/2)) = VW

(No. studs on doors x 9 minus (no. low level wall vents x2)) = XYZ

All Saints, Hainford

Hainford is a scattered parish, its lanes quiet away from the main roads which hurtle traffic through between Norwich and the coast. This rather elegant little church dates from 1838 and was thus the first Victorian church to be built in Norfolk. It is an intelligent design with ecclesiological features already balancing the jaunty but ignorant Gothic familiar from previous decades.

Red brink outlines the knapped flint walls of a nicely-proportioned cruciform structure, with an impressive west front. No Victorian features survive now and the building is entirely mid-20th Century in style. This is perhaps no surprise, because this is a busy benefice, and the church is used far more often than its remote situation might suggest - for example, the village school is directly opposite.

Interestingly, All Saints was built to replace the medieval parish church half a mile or so to the north-east, which survives as a ruin. As often in Norfolk, the opportunity was taken to build a new church nearer to the centre of population. However, the graveyard of the old church continues in use, and so the church here is set in a pleasant lawn, which only goes to make the war memorial at the south-west corner more impressive.

If you would like to add to the Church Micro series yourself then please look here

http://churchmicro.co.uk/

There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page that can be found at

http://www.15ddv.me.uk/geo/cm/index.html

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

(Purpx fhz RST + KLM = 907). Pbhag pnershyyl! Tngr cbfg.

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)