Church Micro 2221... Orton Longueville Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 2221... Orton Longueville
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•The church of the Holy Trinity consists of a chancel, north chapel, nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered with lead. •The church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but nothing of this early church remains. It probably had an aisless nave to which aisles were added around 1240. A general rebuilding was commenced towards the end of the 13th century, beginning with the chancel, chancel arch and north chapel c.1280; the nave and aisles c.1300. The west tower was either built, or rebuilt, at the same time, and the clearstory was added a few years later. In about the middle of the century, the north chapel was rebuilt and the arch between it and the chancel was widened towards the east. •The belfry seems to have been rebuilt with very high walls in the 15th century. The south aisle was rebuilt to about double its former width with the materials from Botolphbridge church in 1675, at which time the porch was also rebuilt. This porch was repaired in 1835, and the church in 1840, with the north chapel being partly rebuilt in 1861. The north aisle roof was restored about 1888, and the roofs of the chancel, nave and south aisle were largely renewed in 1908-9, when some repairs were also done to the east window and the south clearstory windows. The cache is a small tube, can be done as a cache and dash. “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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