St Peter and St Paul Church - Hambledon

History

Hambledon Church as it is known locally (historically known as St Peters) is an evangelical Anglican Church in Hambledon, Surrey. Hambledon Church is part of a parish with Busbridge Church (see CM 1242...Busbridge) connected to the large village or small town of Godalming, Surrey.

Hambledon Church was founded by Ranaulf Flambard before 1086. There are detailed records of Christian worship taking place on the site since before the 14th century. A roll of Rectors on the West wall of the church records Rectors from 1301 to the present Rector (2010) and vicar with special responsibility in the village (2012).

The half-county of the West of Surrey was originally in the Diocese of Winchester but benefitted from closer connections to its charitable and spiritual senior leaders on the establishment in the early 20th century of a more local cathedral and clergy on establishment of the Diocese of Guildford.

The building has a tall square, wood-shingled bell-cot at the western end with double louvred-windows to either side. It has a pyramidal roof over the bellcote topped by a ball and a weathervane finial. Buttressing supports the west end with a quatrefoil roundel window over two lancet windows below, all with linked hood moulds. One 'decorated style' two-light window and one plate tracery window to south side also has mouldings above. There are also gabled offset buttress between lancet north chapel windows underneath mouldings with sill bands and string courses linking windows with the buttresses and the building has a cornice (band of prominent stone beneath the roof). Much of this ornamentation was added in 1846 and the building is listed in the initial architectural protected status category of Grade II.

The Cache

The co-ordinates will take you to the church porch, and to the left of the porch, you will see a stone plaque in the wall - What Year was the Tower rebuilt - call this 19AB

Now go into the Porch and look for the following missing numbers: -

In Memory of a Much Loved Mother - E.M.Read 18CD to 19EF

and May Read Died April G7th 195H

The cache can be found at - N51 08.(A)(H)(D-G) W000 36.(F+B)(B)(C+E-A)

You are looking for a double potted 35mm film pot.

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