Church Micro 2218... Whittlesey St Andrews Traditional Geocache
Beach_hut: We're going to relocate this cache, although it'll constitute a significant change to the hide, and therefore probably a good idea to archive and relist anyway. Therefore will archive and relist soon - watch this space!
Church Micro 2218... Whittlesey St Andrews
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St Andrew is much smaller than St Mary, but very beautiful. It is built of ochre sandstone and sits snugly against the road: the east wall is built into the churchyard and overlooks the houses opposite. The structure is mostly 13th and 14th century work, but was continually added to and modified through until the Reformation. Many of the most striking details on the exterior are late Perpendicular.
The west tower, for example, is richly decorated: there are clasp buttresses on the corners which are decorated at the top of the first stage with a line of battlements, and the parapet of the tower itself is also battlemented with four little pinnacles on the corners. The aisles are broad and battlemented, and there's a nice south porch with more little spires and three niches over the doorway. At the end of the south aisle is a chapel, built of slightly better quality stone than the rest (though this hasn't saved it from subsidence: it now looks ever so slightly wonky). It's also slightly later: the windows are square-headed, with sober curvilinear tracery in the tops, and there are more decorated buttresses in the corners.
The cache is a magnectic micro, free car parking is available at the waypoint
“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.
There is also a Church Micro Stats page found via the Bookmark list”
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