Church Micro 14024...Stanmore - St Anselms Traditional Cache
Hidden : 8/30/2021
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Another addition to the Church Micro series which was started by Sadexploration.

Not much information on the history of this church. It is in the Belmont area of Greater London. James Brydges, the phenomenally wealthy owner of Canons Park, was dissatisfied with the view along the western avenue from his mansion, so he created a mound called Belmont and had a summer-house built on its brow, probably in the 1720s. Stanmore golf course now overlies the mound.

Throughout the 19th century the area remained wholly unspoilt, with just a few scattered gentlemen’s residences. William Loudon established a model farm on Kenton Lane around 1810 and both the farmhouse and its main outbuildings survive today. A row of cottages called Belmont Terrace was built to the east in 1827, on Honeypot Lane.

Towards the end of the century the railway came through on its way from Harrow to Stanmore but it was not until 1932 that a station opened at Belmont, in response to the first stirrings of suburban growth and with the financial assistance of the developers. Over the rest of the decade the area was very rapidly built up with middle-class housing, accompanied by shops and the Essoldo cinema at Belmont Circle.

Belmont School opened in 1938 and construction of the church started in the same year, using materials and furnishings from a demolished church of the same name that had stood in Davies Street, Mayfair. Nowadays described as a “gently charismatic evangelical Church of England church community,” St Anselm’s is located at the eastern end of Clifton Avenue.

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For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him at churchmicro@gmail.co.uk.

See also the Church Micro Statistics and Home pages for further information about the series.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)


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