Church Micro 3121... Dartford-St Albans- Multi-cache
Church Micro 3121... Dartford-St Albans-
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The above coordinates are for St Albans Church in Dartford.
In 1880, as new houses were constantly being built and the population was rapidly increasing, it was deemed necessary to build more convenient, as well as increased, church accommodation for East Dartford and so St Alban’s began its life as a mission church. It was intended that it should be built in St Edmund’s burial ground on the site of a medieval chapel but it was then decided that it would be too near it’s mother church of Holy Trinity. The site in St Albans Road was given by Mrs Sankey and the total cost of construction was £636. 8s. 2½d. The stone laying was held on 8th June 1880 and the first service was held on 7th October of that year.
The church seated 150 and adequately served the needs of the area for the next twenty years. Further expansion of the population made it necessary to have a larger building. In June 1900 a committee of ten men and ten women was formed to organise a band of helpers to raise money for the erection of a new church.
Subsequently there was an alternation in the plan and instead it was decided to enlarge the existing building to accommodate 400 people. The cost of these alternations and additions was £2,631. 7s. 6d. The church was then granted parochial status, the consecration took place on 17th February 1902 and the ceremony was performed by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor Frederick Temple, in the last year of his life. (The greater part of what is now the Rochester Diocese came under the jurisdiction of Canterbury for sixty years but its original boundaries were later recovered).
The formation and consecration of the new parish a year later on 12th March 1903 was one of the first acts of Archbishop Randall Thomas Davidson who had been enthroned exactly a month previously which means that St Alban’s was in the unusual position of being consecrated twice.
St Alban’s likes to remember that Archbishop Davidson was a curate at Holy Trinity church between 1875 and 1878. He lived in Fulwich Road and took an active part in the life of what is now the parish of St Alban. Many years later he wrote “I do not think any years in my life have been happier and none have been more useful than those which I spent at Dartford”. In 1992, more than thirty years after leaving, Canon Peter Collins returned to take part in the 90th anniversary celebrations and made exactly the same statement.
In 1909 the parish magazine issued its first edition and in the same year a site for the parish all was purchased for £160. A Million Farthing Fund was launched to pay for the building. The work was completed in 1911 at a cost of £1,114. 2s. 4d. Records still exist of the individual amounts donated. If a donor was able to raise 48 farthings (5p) the donor’s name was engraved on a brick on the frontage of the hall.
So to the cache:
At the front of the Church (the side with the entrance) there are A small Arch windows and B large Arch Windows.
Cache can be found at:
N51 26. (B+B) (B+B) B
E000 14. (B+B) A (A-A)
Cache is a magnetic black nano.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Oruvaq bar bs gurz