Church Micro 15355...Dilham
St Nicholas church in Dilham is a beautiful but unusual church, situated around a mile from the centre of the village.
There was a church with aisles and a square flint tower on this location from medievel times. This tower was repaired in 1775 as a square tower, and the church was reduced in size, losing its aisles, and rebuilt in red brick. This tower was badly cracked in a storm in 1834 and demolished in 1835. Later that year a round tower was built in its position, but this fell into ruins by the end of the century. Then, in 1931, the whole church was rebuilt faced with flints, and Clipsham stone was used for the dressed stone square-headed windows with X shaped cusped tracery, quoins, doorways, porch, string courses and buttresses. The base of the round tower was built up to form a baptistery, where the font stands. There is a bell cote on the south-west corner, in which hangs a bell cast in 1653.
The Cache
This is a simple two part multicache. Find the obelisk in the church grounds commemorating William Norfor and replace the letters in the equation below with the relevant numbers in the dates on the obelisk. (A & H are represented by months of the year in words - convert these into the relevant number).
A BCst DEFG
H Ind JKLM
Coordinates of final cache:
N52o GE.0BH
E001o IE.0LK
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