Another addition to the Church Micro Series - this one is taking recycling to various levels. The CM number has been recycled from a previous verison at this Church, the cache has now been archived but could be viewed here:GC3HG9R. The information about the church is recycled with the kind permission of BaSHful who wrote it on the original cache and the container is recycled from one originally placed by Flatcoat Walker. As far as I know the final location is brand new though - at least I've never found a cache there!
The Church
Sacred Heart, Cobham, was designed by one of England’s most revered 20th century architects, Henry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959). A multi-talented man, he was a fine musician, architectural critic and wit. From 1933 to 1936 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford; in 1936 he was appointed Director of the Architectural Association but left after a year or two; and from 1937 to 1939 he was President of the RIBA. As an architect he is generally considered most successful as a designer of churches.
In the Catalogue of Works at the end of H S Goodhart-Rendel 1887-1959 edited by Alan Powers Sacred Heart, Cobham is described in this way:-
The church has a typical Goodhart-Rendel plan, expressed in classical forms inside and out with Georgian Gothick windows and small-scale Doric columns. Simple barrel vaults of fibrous plaster spring from a reduced entablature, with passage aisles exploiting a Lutyenesque ‘disappearing pilaster’. The logic of the plan creates internal space and external modelling unlike any previous classical church, with an American flavour in the white-boarded cupola, and half-hipped gables recalling Philip Webb. The church demonstrates Goodhart-Rendel’s belief in the relativity of style, presumably chosen in this case as a comment on the prettiness of the surrounding suburbia.
Photographs printed in Alan Powers’ book of 1987 show the church as it was when completed in 1958. Since they were taken the church has been extended both to the east and west. The result is that, although the additions have been quite carefully designed in matching style and materials, some of the picturesque charm of the original form has been lost.
There is parking at the church but it is pay and display and should be only for users of the church and the hall. There is another pay and display car park a short distance away.
The cache:
At the listed co-ordinates you should find a large rectangle sign on the wall of the building - the first section of text reads "CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART".
Call the phone number of the Parish Priest 01932 ABCDEF and their address GH Between Streets. (I wanted to use just the phone number but that is what BaSHful originally used and I wanted to make something a bit different!).
The final location is a short walk away at:
N51 19.B (G+H-E) F
W000 24.(B+E) (A/C) (D+E)
The checksum for the 6 calculated figures in the final location is 37.
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