CONGRATULATIONS The kins - FIRST TO FIND!!!
This multi-cache is placed a short walk from peaceful St Michael and All Saint's Church.
On a clear day you will be rewarded with beautiful views. In inclement weather you should find atmospheric views which I especially enjoy too!
Photos included in your logs would be much appreciated.
Please take time to explore this unusual church whilst visiting.
About St Michael and All Saint's Church
The history St Michael and All Saints Church is somewhat obscure. It was not a parish church at the time of the Norman Conquest but a chapelry of St Helens in Worcester. It apparently did not have a font or burial ground until 1375 when application was made to the mother church, as the parish church of Holt was 2 miles distant and the road, especially in winter, ‘watery and muddy’.
The church that stands here today was rebuilt in 1867 by Rector Holt to a design by the Worcester’s church architect Abraham Edward Perkins. It is built on the foundations of the original 13th century chapel. A blocked doorway in the north end of the nave is said to date from the early thirteenth century.
Using the footings of the chapel, Perkins extended the building to expand the chancel with an apsidal east end and a vestry. Mrs Sale, the wife of Rector Holt, was responsible for many of the carvings, corbels, the pulpit and the font.
The chapelry was transferred to the parish of Great Witley in 1904.
Little Witley church is a listed building, the listing for which reads... ‘Church of St Michael – Parish church. C13 foundations, rebuilt 1867 probably by S W Perkins. Red sandstone ashlar, tiled roof. Early English style. Nave with south porch, north vestry, apsidal chancel. 3-bay nave, octagonal plan bell- cote to west end, 3 columns with stiff-leaf capitals, decorative closed sides, conical capping and finial, pointed arched, Y-traceried windows with stiff-leaf capitals to responds, hoodmoulds and stiff-leaf stops flank central part. Timber-framed gabled porch; doorway similar to window surround, moulded archway and stiff-leaf ornament; buttressing to west end and to chancel arch, semi-circular headed doorway on north face only remains of earlier church, 2-bay chancel has simple lancets. Interior: trussed rafter roof to nave supported on stiff-leaf corbels, pointed chancel arch similar to doorway and window surrounds, supported on 2 orders with sitff-leaf capitals.'
To find the cache first:
Locate the headstone of Elizabeth Mytton, the beloved wife of Edward Mytton, at the published co-ordinates.
Gather the following information to solve the equation below:
What date in December did Elizabeth pass away? = AB
What year did Elizabeth die? = CDEF
What age was she when she died? = GH
Substitute the letters for numbers to calculate the final co-ordinates:
N52 16. (H-G) (D-C) (D-H)
W002 19. (A+G-H) (H+C) (G+A-C)
The cache site is a short walk beyond the church yard...
You are looking for a magnetic micro and will need a pen and tweezers.
Please avoid visiting during church service times unless you wish to join the congregation.
I'm sure you would be made most welcome.
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