Advent Calendar 2024 Day 24: St John, Newhall
This concept of an advent calendar set of church micros is unashamedly copied from a set I found in Moray, Northern Scotland. When I discovered those, I knew I had to do something similar. All of these church micros are set in South Derbyshire, although geographically the district is quite wide spread as you may have noticed from A-Z and similar caches. I created a list of candidate churches in the area; some had had church micros before but I had no qualms about "resurrecting" those. There are a couple of unusual or off the beaten track entries in the set as well just to add to interest.
From the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record: St John's is a Grade II listed Anglican church dating to pre-1836, probably between 1820-30. It is a red brick church standing in the former centre of Newhall village, facing the green called Market Place. It has a short west tower, an aiseless nave and a chancel. It has been built in the Gothic style. The tower has a west door, window cloak, belfry window and crenellated parapet. Angle buttresses are carried up to small square "towers" surmounted by broach spires. The nave has four windows, all with deeply-splayed brick arches and dripmoulds. There is a large east window to the chancel. Inside, there is a panelled west gallery, doors with Gothic ribbed tracery, and chandeliers. Wall monuments include one to Rev Joseph Clay, "one of the founders of this church" (died 1836). There is also an open wooden screen of 1924. St John's Church was consecrated in July 1833 and restored in 1893.
There is a small car park adjacent to the church. The cache is a short walk away due to other caches in the area. At the posted co-ordinates is a prominent grave made of red stone. Ada died aged AB on C June DEFG. William died aged HJ on K December LMNP. The cache is at N52 4(E-G).EPD W001 3B.(N-L-F)PN. The checksum of the calculated digits is 30.
As ever please use extreme stealth retrieving this, you should be able to reach it from the path but muggles can approach from any direction. Please replace exactly where found as per the hint.
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