This is part of the series of caches started by sadexploration. The Co-ordinates are not at the location of the cache but the starting point you will need to visit in order to get the answers.
The Central Methodist Church is the main Methodist place of worship in Eastbourne. The large building with attached schoolrooms and ancillary buildings is the successor to earlier Methodist places of worship in the area.
In 1803 soldiers brought the denomination to the area when an isolated collection of clifftop villages stood where the 19th-century resort town of Eastbourne has now developed. A society they formed in that year to encourage Methodism's growth, local Methodist worshipper and historian Carlos Crisford designed the lavish church in 1907, and it has been used for worship ever since—even as several other Methodist churches in the town and surrounding villages have declined and closed. For several years until 2013, it also provided a home for a Baptist congregation displaced from their church, which was sold for redevelopment.
The church is a Grade II Listed building and is an elaborate Decorated Gothic Revival building of grey stone rubble laid in courses with some ashlar. The roof is laid with pantiles, which are not original. The church and its associated buildings stand on a corner site. The church itself is entered from Pevensey Road and faces southeastwards; its side façade faces southwest on Susan’s Road. Next to it on this road is the Sunday school and church hall, which also has a northwest elevation along Langney Road. The church entrance is in a canted buttressed porch next to the tower, which stands at the southeast corner. There are two pairs of lancet windows in the porch, each with trefoils above. A wide seven-light lancet window with tracery and trefoils is above this. The double doorway in the porch has a carving of a verse from Psalm 100.
The Susan’s Road façade is of five bays, each with a gable and arched windows at the upper level. There is another porch at the northeast corner. The tower has three levels, with crocketed buttresses to the lower and middle stages. The upper level has a belfry with louvres and trefoil-headed windows. Above this, the spire is of stone and has lucarnes (small dormers popular in Gothic architecture) and a weather-vane. The original interior survives consisting of a wooden gallery, supported on slender iron columns, runs round below the hammerbeam roof. Other fittings dating from the church's opening include pews, a pulpit and an organ case originally fitted with a three-manual pipe organ. The church hall is a two-storey Decorated Gothic building of stone, with gables, cast ironwork and lancet windows with tracery.
The adjacent Sunday school, also of two storeys, has a Jacobean appearance, with battlemented turrets in several places. There is a two-window ranges on the Langney Road side; each has prominent transoms, mullions and pediments. The Susan’s Road façade has a four-window range, mostly with leadlights. Inside, a staircase with ornate cast ironwork survives.
This is my first Multi and I wanted to make the cachers think a little - please leave feedback in your logs so I can improve this and future caches.
To find the cache. Visit the above co-ordinates and you should find the entrance to the church. Above the entrance is an inscription, use this to answer the following questions:
A=Number of 'E's in the inscription
B=Half the number of words in the inscription
C=Number of 'K's
D=Twice as many 'His'
E=Sixth word minus the first word
F=Number of words divided by the sixth word
G=Second word added to ninth word
H=Seventh word
J=Square root of the eighth word
K=Number of 'H's
The cache can be found at N50 AB.CDE E000 FG.HJK
Happy Hunting
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