This cache will bring you to Cullenswood.
Cullenswood is located about two kilometres west of St Mary’s in the Fingal Valley. All that remains of the former village is its church and rectory.
Christchurch at Cullenswood is the legacy of Robert Vincent Legge. Legge arrived in Van Diemans Land in 1827 and shortly after took up a 1200 acre land grant on the Break O’ Day Plains. He named his estate Cullenswood, after his family home in Ireland.
Robert Legge was a devout Anglican and in gratitude for his good fortune he built a church at Cullenswood. Legge also built a rectory and secured its first priest, his nephew, Dr Samuel Parsons.
A striking feature of the church even today is the crowdedness of the cemetery with headstones clustered alongside the walls of the church.
The interior of the church is similarly packed with memorials to the Legge dynasty. A beautiful memorial pulpit to Colonel William Legge was dedicated in 1921. Five of the church’s leadlight windows commemorate members of the Legge family. At the rear of the church is a plaque which celebrates the foundation of the Mother’s Union of Australia at Cullenswood in 1892. This was the first to be established in Australia by Mrs L’Oste, the wife of the Rector.
Christchurch is a sublime and atmospheric church and its interior transports one back in time. Although privately owned, it is generously left open for visitors. It is in need of restoration and the owners deserve every support to preserve this magnificent church which is a valuable part of Tasmania’s cultural and religious heritage. Read the full story at https://www.churchesoftasmania.com/2018/06/christchurch-at-cullenswood-drop-in.html
At the posted coordinates you will be standing in front of the church.
The stone on the front of the church reads Anno Domini ??????????
This number will give you ABCD.
At WP2 behind the church you will find a monument to the Legge family.
Colonel W.V. Legge died at Cullenswood House aged EF years.
Robert Vincent Legge died aged GH years.
Frances Anne Talbot died in her JKnd year.
The cache can be found a short drive away at
South 41° (C-A)C.(B-A)(D-E)(E-C)
East 148° (F-F)J.(G-E)(J-K)(H-D)