Church Micro 11178...Letchworth - St Hugh Multi-cache

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Hidden : 9/18/2017
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Geocache Description:

The cache is NOT at the published coordinates, although you will have to visit them to gather some information to find the actual location of the cache.

You are looking for a small tube

Go to the published coordinates and find the information board on the church wall.

The Phone Number at the bottom is ABCDE FGHJKL

The cache can be found at: N 51° 58.JDB W 000° 13.F(E+L)C

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The Church of St Hugh of Lincoln in Letchworth in Hertfordshire is a Roman Catholic church founded by the scholar and priest Adrian Fortescue. The first church was consecrated in 1908 and was dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln while the modern church which replaced it was built in 1963. It comes under the Diocese of Westminster.

When Adrian Fortescue was appointed Missionary Rector of Letchworth in Hertfordshire in November 1907 he faced the task of building a church from scratch. Much of the original church he designed and paid for personally, and parish records show that he in fact donated more each year than he received in his annual stipend. The first small church on the site in Pixmore Way opened in 1908 and was designed by Sir Charles Spooner RIBA with a Romanesque facade and was intended to be a temporary church with a presbytery, added in 1909. The church was blessed by Patrick Fenton, the Bishop of Amycla, on 6 September 1908 and was dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln. Today this original church is the Church Hall and has been named 'Fortescue Hall' in memory of its founder. Gradually this church became famous for its music and rich liturgical life.

The original church had always been intended to be temporary until funds could be found for a larger and permanent building and Fortescue created designs for a new church before his death in 1923. In 1938 a design for a new church was drawn up by John Edward Dixon-Spain of Nicholas and Dixon-Spain and Partners and building of this new church should have started in September 1939 but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. In the end work did not start until May 1961, still largely following Dixon-Spain's original stripped modern Romanesque design and with John Willmott & Sons of Hitchin as the builders. The church has a frame of reinforced concrete and steel which is externally clad in brick with Clipsham stone window and door surrounds. The nave is broad and long nave with narrow aisles and with a western narthex and baptistery and a Sanctuary and Lady Chapel to the south. The original flat roof was later replaced with a shallow-pitched concrete roof. Several church furnishings from the old church were moved into the new including the holy water font, the ciborium (removed in the renovations of 2007) and the four stained-glass windows and stone tablet dedicated to Fortescue.

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