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Church Micro 8335 - Ruan Major - St Rumon. Multi-cache

Hidden : 9/19/2015
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The headline co-ordinates will take you to the church of St Rumon's in Ruan major, then a short walk to a hidden lock & lock container. Parking is quite difficult, but there is room for one car in front of the church.


St Ruman's Church - Ruan Major



The Church.

The church is mainly of C15 construction but parts date back to possibly the C13.
Originally much larger and comprising of a chancel, nave, north & south aisles, tower and porch. Having become considerably dilapidated it was pulled down in 1866. The following year it was greatly altered by Edmund Sedding and rebuilt with just a chancel and nave.
The original C14 tower remains which is 45 feet high and in two stages, with battlements and four crocketed pinnacles.
The four arches between the old north and south aisles can still be seen in the built up north wall.

The churchyard has 53 headstones with 114 names, and 1 official War Grave which you will have to visit.

I cant find any record of the last service before the church closed for good, but after this, the last burial was in 1986.
The roof was taken down for safety reasons and the church is now a ruinous shell with one remaining protected stained glass window in the east wall.



Interior of Church



The Cache.

In the churchyard, locate the only war grave. Corporal C L Stone died aged AB

Entering through the porch, at the inner entrance to the church, How many hinge door hangers are there in total = C

On a memorial to Alexander Pengilly of Terice, he was born on DEth Nov FGHJ

Cache can be found at N50'0(F-D). ABJ W005'1(E-H).(H-A)(C-F)(G-B)

Cache is a medium size, round, lock & lock tub.

Check sum for the full North and South co-ords is 34.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)