Church Micro 2390 All Saints' Dogmersfield Traditional Cache
Church Micro 2390 All Saints' Dogmersfield
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Small cache placed just outside the churchyard. N.B. Google shows All Saints' Church in the wrong location, which I have reported, it is on the opposite side of Church Lane further down.
The Norman transitional-style parish church of All Saints' in Dogmersfield was built by Benjamin Ferrey and consecrated on 5th October 1843. It was the gift of the Rector, the Reverend Charles Dyson and his half-sister Mary Ann, on a site exchanged with Jane, Lady Mildmay for the old glebe lands in the Home Park of nearby Dogmersfield House. John Keble, founder of the Oxford movement and life-long friend of Dyson, chose the site with a view to the convenience of the parishioners: estate workers and tenants housed in the village of Dogmersfield newly constructed around the old hamlet of Pilcot.
The late date of this church, however, does not reflect the antiquity of the parish. The first known church in Dogmersfield -"the field by the lake where the water lilies grow" - is mentioned in the Doomsday Book, 1086, and was therefore most probably of Saxon origin.
Parking is available at the front of the church (except Sundays) or for a lovely five minute stroll park near the school and take the public footpath (access to the right if the gate is locked) which goes in between the horses field and the cricket ground to the church. Avoid school start and finish times though as the road is absolutely jam packed then.
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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