The church of St Andrew is mostly built of rubble with freestone dressings and stone tiled roofs and comprises chancel with north vestry and south chapel, nave with north and south chapels and south porch, and west tower. The nave is of the 11th century and retains the outlines of the original round-headed north and south doorways. The chancel is 12th-century and contains a contemporary window in the north wall; it was altered during the 13th century when a lancet window was placed in the north wall. Both doorways to the nave were reduced in height by the insertion of new arches in the 14th century, when the south porch was added. The manorial chapel, on the south of the chancel, and the tower were added in the 15th century, when the nave windows and east windows were enlarged and a stairway made for access to a rood-loft. The south chapel to the nave was added in the earlier 18th century by the owners of the Sudgrove estate, and in 1730 the rector Giles Mills and William Mills of Hazle House, in Bidfield, built the north chapel. A west gallery was inserted in the 18th century. At a restoration in 1866, to designs of the Revd. W. H. Lowder, the nave chapels were arcaded to give them the appearance of aisles, the gallery was removed, the nave and chancel reroofed, the chancel arch enlarged, and the nave windows altered.
There is a Norman font with a plain cylindrical bowl scored with chevrons, and, in the chancel, a 14th-century aumbry. The glass is all modern except for the badge of the duke of York in the window on the north wall of the nave. In 1970 there was one large and one small bell, cast by Abraham Rudhall in 1722 to replace four ancient bells, one of which had possibly been cast by Roger Purdue in 1629.
In the manorial chapel is an alabaster monument to Sir William Sandys and his wife Margaret (d. 1641 and 1644). The work, possibly by Edward Marshall, is of two full-size recumbent figures with children carved round the tomb-chest. Traces of the rich gilding and colour were still on the monument in 1970. Also in the chapel, to which it was removed from the chancel in 1866, is a tomb with an effigy to William Kingston (d. 1614), attributed to Samuel Baldwin of Stroud. On the north wall of the chancel is a monument to Anthony Partridge and his wife, also attributed to Samuel Baldwin, which incorporates kneeling figures in a deep plinth surrounded by classical columns. In the churchyard are some 18th-century carved tombs. The church plate includes a chalice and paten cover of 1735, a salver of 1754, and a flagon of 1780. The registers for Miserden are complete from 1574.
The church is named in the Doomsday Book under it's previous name of Greenhamsted.
In order to locate the cache you must gather the required information, from two locations :
Firstly Anne Sarah Mills was born on AB October CDEF, and the second gravestone Patricia Rose Mary Koechlin Smythe was born GH.11.1928 and passed away on IJ.2.KLMN.
The final cache location can be located at N.(B-F)C. (N-G)N J(G+H)E W.EEA. E(J-H) (D/I)(Gx2+K)(M-A-F)
You are looking for a 35mm film cannister, placed a short walk from the church, it is not within any dry stone walls so please replace where it was found.
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