St. Michael's, Farley Green
Another contribution to this series, started by sadexploration, is St.Michael's, Farley Green.
St Michael's Church is a converted 19th century barn, which replaced an earlier building, one of several in a yard farmed in 1839 from Brook Farm. It was built between 1840 and 1880, by which time the whole of the original yard had been rebuilt. Four years later the Albury Estate did further rebuilding and it was farmed as a complete unit, Cherryman's Farm, with 80 acres of land until it was sold in 1922, thereafter the land and buildings were let. The owner, Mr. Courtenay-Wells died in 1929 and the barn was given by his widow, Clara, to be converted into a church as a memorial to her husband at the expense of the Parochial Church Council for a Chapel of Ease in the Parish of Albury. It was dedicated in 1930. The work was carried out by F.W. Woods and Son, builders of Little London. The construction is a brick and ironstone dwarf wall, surmounted by oak framing with weatherboarding outside and lath and plaster inside. The roof is of strutted framework boarded on rafters and tiled. No architect was employed, the work being done under the supervision of Mr. Charles Allen of Yew Tree Cottage, Farley Green.
A straight forward micro. The cache is not within the churchyard so do not try and look for it there.
The cache has a log book only but no pen so please bring one with you.
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