Church Micro 6337 ... Nately Scures RG27 9PH Multi-cache

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Danes Hunter: Due to Arthritis I now can’t open caches, or roll up the logs, so I’ve decided to give up Geocaching.
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Hidden : 9/6/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

St. Swithun is very unusual church.

Please have a look around the church, I have never found the door locked, and don’t forget to turn off all 9 lights when you leave.

Most cars now have a Satnav fitted, so I thought you might like the postcode for this church.

 

While here you can also get GCD20D 'Ob-scure



The church is dedicated to St. Swithun. It consists of an apse 16ft. in diameter and a nave 30 ft. long. It is built of flint rubble with angle quoins and door and window dressings of Binstead stone. Alt authorities agree that it was erected in the third quarter of the 12th century.

Nately Scures Church is probably the most perfect example of single cell Norman aisle less apsidal church existing in this country. There are only two other complete examples of this type of church in Great Britain. North Marden in Sussex, and Little Tey in Essex, and both these have had porches and vestries added.

A peculiarity of the church is the sole entrance being on the north side. This is very unusual in England, yet Up Nateley church only a mile away and Greywell two miles away have the same peculiarity.

Another peculiarity is the fact that the centre window of the apse is not truly centred but inclines to the north, this is more noticeable externally than internally. This peculiarity has never been noted by any writer on the church and all plans give the window truly centred.
The bell gable dates from the restoration of the last century and replaces a wooden bell-cot of the 17th century. The present roof dates from 1786.

The above coordinates will take you to the grave of

Kevin John Simmons

Use the dates AB – CD – EF … GH – JK – LM

 

The cache can be found at

N 51.16 F (C+M) F … W000.59. (E+H) (A+K) M

If you add up all the digits in the final coordinates it should come to 57

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ovfba va VPG arkg gb fghzc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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