Church Micro 2260... Alwalton Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 2260... Alwalton
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•The church of St. Andrew consists of a chancel, crossing, north transept, south transept, nave, north aisle, south aisle, tower and a 19th century south porch. The walls are of stone rubble with Barnack stone dresings except for the clearstory which is faced externally with brick and is plastered. The roofs are covered with lead and slates. •The church is not mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 but, by the end of the 12th century, there was a stone church with a north aisle - parts of which still remain. The church was lengthened one bay to the west early in the 13th century, when the nave must have been considerably widened, and a south aisle and west tower built. •About 1300 it was apparently contemplated to rebuild the church. A large chancel with north and south transepts, all vaulted in stone, were built with probably the lower part of a central tower. About 30 years later, however, the project was abandoned. The walls of the cntral tower were pulled down, and a wide arch was thrown across the nave in place of the western arch. The walls of the chancel and transepts were finished with a plain quoine at their intersections. •In the 15th century, the nave walls were raised to form a clearstory, and both aisles were reroofed. Possibly at this time, or a little later, a chancel arch was inserted and wide arches built between the crossing and the transepts; the vaulting of the chancel and transepts was destroyed. •In 1840-41, the church was restored, the chancel arch rebuilt and the south porch added. The roofs were all renewed and the south-east corner of the belfry rebuilt. The tower was underpinned and thoroughly restored in 1902-3, and the rest of the church in 1904-5. The cache is a magnetic nano, 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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