Church micro 14418...Monskwood
THE CACHE
This is a church micro that is located in the town of Monskwood. The parking coordinates take you to where i reccomend you park and then i reccomend that you walk to the church where you have to answer the simple questions to get you ABCD.
1. Go to the gravestone of Florence Rose Bradley. What was the date that she died? Call this January AB 1979
2. How old was she? Call this CD years
The final coordinates are...
N51 43.(A+A)(B)(A+D), W2 56.(B+C)(B+C)(D)
THE CHURCH
St Matthew's church sits on the northern side of the A472 although you are hard pressed to see it from this busy road and the site is best reached from the narrow lane leading northwestwards towards Penpedairheol. Regrettably St Matthew is a Victorian replacement for a mediaeval predecessor being built between 1882 and 1884. Consisting of a nave, slightly lower chancel and a double bell gable the church is small as befits its size of congregation. The church is clearly of little architectural interest, Pevsner describes it as "small and undistinguished" in the few lines he devotes to it. From Cefn Mawr Lane the site is accessed by a short gravelled path running between the garages of fronting properties. The site is well screened by trees but has few obstructions to photography one within.
If you would like to add to the Church Micro series yourself then please look here
http://churchmicro.co.uk/
There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page that can be found at
http://www.15ddv.me.uk/geo/cm/index.html