Parts of the Church building date back over 800 years and there are contributions from many periods in history. The nave contains some of the earliest work. 12th Century pillars made from clunch (a form of chalk) and the arcades still remain, the west wall at the back of the church also dates back to the 12th Century.
Stained glass windows, memorials, grave slabs in the aisles and wall plaques all add to the history of the church, telling us of the various families and personages of Laleham’s past.
There are many memorials in the churchyard to well-known people, such as Matthew Arnold, the poet and the 3rd Earl of Lucan who reluctantly passed the order for the Charge of the Light Brigade.
The church had a wooden steeple prior to 1731 but around 1732 it was replaced a by a brick-built tower, but this too had to be extensively repaired and buttressed a hundred years later. The clock, which you see today, was installed in 1842.
On the North side is the Lucan Chapel with its red Tudor brickwork and as one walks around the churchyard towards the East the Lucan Memorial can be seen. It is here that many of the Earls of Lucan are buried.
The cache is not in the church grounds, so don't look there you won't find it. It is near a busy road juction so you will have to be patient and stealthy in order to grab and return the cache without being spotted.
You are looking for a magnetic micro, with a logbook only, so please BYOP.
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For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration; please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him.
See also the Church Micro Statistics; and Home; pages for further information about the series.
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