St Faiths Church, Newton Longville
St Faith’s has an aisled and clerestoried nave, a chancel with a N chapel formed from the continuation of the nave aisle, and a W tower. The nave arcades are of two bays with cylindrical piers and half-column responds. The capitals of the central pier of each arcade are late-12c; the arcade was remodelled c1300; the responds given moulded capitals the arches a double-chamfered inner order. The N arcade arches retain nailhead labels, and both arcades have spandrel figures above the piers reused from the 12thc arcade. The aisles belong to the c1300 remodelling, when they were widened and given new, plain doorways. The S porch and clerestory are 15thc. The chancel arch is, like the nave arcades, a mixture of late-12thc and c1300 work. In the chancel, the arhc to the chapel is also of c1300, but the chapel itself is Perpendicular work of the 15thc, so was presumably rebuilt. The W tower is 15thc, with diagonal buttresses at the W angles. It is constructed of large blocks of grey ashlar, badly eroded, whereas the remainder of the church is of irregular stone rubble. The embattled nave parapets are 15thc, while that on the tower is modern. The 15thc work is presumed to correspond with the grant of the church to New College Oxford in 1441. The church was restored by A. W. Blomfield in 1881 and was again restored in 1891. Romanesque sculpture is found in the nave arcades, the chancel arch and the font.
The cache
The cache is not at the published coordinates, which take you to the lychgate. There is a wooden beam above your head in the gate which has an inscription on. This inscription has three years, make these ABCD and 191E-193F.
You will find the cache at: N51 58.CA(E+1). W000 46.(D-F)(B-E)(C+1)
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