Church Micro 9223...Upper Caldecote - Methodist
This cache has been placed to bring you to the Methodist church in Upper Caldecote.
Upper Caldecote is a hamlet of the ancient parish of Northill and remains in the civil parish of Northill. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish| in 1928.
In 1907 the chapel trustees purchased a piece of land for a new chapel from Mrs.Glynn Taddy. The new building was designed by Thomas Cockrill in 1908. His first design for a 250 seater chapel came in an £1,350 and he was asked to scale it down to 200 seats and a cost of £1,000. In the event the lowest tender was £1,256/1/7 by Charles Wright of Langford, who had also built the Wesleyan chapel in Northill in 1902. The building was redecorated in 1937, a new organ installed in 1948 and a new heating system installed the next year, with a new stove in 1951. The chapel was completed in 1909.
When I visited, the senior steward showed me inside. I especially liked the ceiling and the coloured glass (not stained galss!) windows.
To find the cache you need to go to the published co-ords and find the following information from the foundation stone towards the right of the front of the building.
"This stone was laid by Mr J Matthews C.C." Date = AB, Month = CD, Year = EFGH
The cache can be found a short walk away at N52 0(D+E).A(B+2)(D+2) W000 1(F-2).(B+2)(D+2) (H-E)
Check sum of all the digits = 57
Good Luck!
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