The Church of St John the Evangelist is a fine example of a flint knapped building that was designed by Gilbert Scott. In an extraordinary turn of events the design was copied and taken to New York where an exact replica was built as the Church of St. Thomas, Mamaroneck.
At the head of the Meon Valley, proud and slender amidst its trees, stands the tower of West Meon Church. Here upon its ancient hill, with the huddle of thatched and mellow-tiled cottages clustered at its feet, the parish Church of St. John the Evangelist presides over one of the loveliest English village scenes imaginable. This is at least the second church in this place. The present building belongs to the early 1840's, the very first years of the Gothic Revival. According to firm tradition , St. Wilfred the Bishop first preached the faith to the village people during exile from his Northumbrian Bishopric from 681 to 686 A.D. West Meon has always been a large, important parish ever since it was first settled by the Meonwara at least a century before that.
Now for the cache.
The church was founded in ABC according to the sign
Walk around the church and find the number on the drain cover from Yaxley. It is DEFGHH
The cache can be found at
N51 00.G(A/C)D W001 05.(A-E)FE
If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication
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