Church Micro 10703...Pitchcombe Multi-Cache

A small church on the edge of the village of Pitchcombe where I grew up as a child. with a village hall and views across the Painswick valley. Please take care if you have children with you as the access to the cache is from the busy road.

 ST John the Baptist church Pitchcombe. The original church, the Pitchcombe Cradle, was built in 1376 and remained in use until about 1819. It was then thought to be too small - maybe attendance was compulsory – and replaced by the new current church which was constructed around the old one which was then knocked down from within. That may have been a response to competition from the Congregational Chapel built in 1803 between what are still known as the Chapel Steps and Manor Farm. There is no trace of the building nor of any graves. It was used until about 1898 when its popularity had so declined that it was demolished. The present church bell is thought to date from 1350 to 1380

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