Buckland Church
St Mary the virgin is adjacent to the busy A25 in Buckland and is thought to have been built around 1380 and was fully refurbished in 1860. The timbers of the nave roof which is of braced-collar construction, are of oak, plastered between, while the chancel roof, of the same construction is faced with modern boarding. The fact that these roofs are still in position is an argument for the walls being still the original 14th century walls, refaced externally with flint pebbles to a large extent in 1860. Before the restoration, the external walls were smoothly plastered. The bell-tower has a shingled spire, and internally is a structure of 14th century oak, except for the eastern supports in the church. It was retained as too solid to justify removal, and the huge Western baulks that form the legs, with their arched braces, are fine pieces of medieval carpentry. Woodyer designed a fine winding wood stair that leads to the ringing chamber’.
Number 48 in the series is a simple find, the cache can be very easily spotted so please make sure you do you best to cover it up again once found.
The cache has a log book only plus micro certificates and hand made micro churches for the first few finders but no pen so please bring one with you
If any body would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let me know first so I can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication
To view the church micro stats page, please click here