St Barnabas
Cache number 14 in the series is St Barnabas in Ranmore
St. Barnabas Church on the North Downs Way, was built at the sole expense of Mr. George Cubitt, MP, who later became the First Baron Ashcombe. An estate church, it was consecrated on All Saints Day 1859 and was intended to serve the people employed on the Cubitt family's recently acquired estate of Denbies on the outskirts of Dorking. The Church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the Architect who is famous not only for his restoration of many of England's cathedrals, but also for the Albert Memorial and St. Pancras Station in London and St. Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh. The Church benefits from its site on the ridge of the North Downs and is noted for its octagonal tower and tall slender spire which stands over 700 feet above sea-level. The tower contains a ring of eight bells cast by Mears & Stainbank, the Tenor weighing just under 1 Ton. With the help of the Guildford Diocesan Guild, the Surrey Association of Church Bellringers, Mr. Adrian White, the present owner of Denbies, and other interested parties the bells were restored and rehung in 1990.
There are a few parking spaces opposite the Church and a NT pay n display car park on Ranmoor Common Road nearby
The coordinates will take you to a place where you will get the info you need. Please bear in mind these coordinates will not be exact because of its proximity to a very large building (The Church of course) but what you seeking is quite obvious (and you can sit on it )
N 51.14.512 W 00.21.620
In loving memory of Norah Barter 19AB – 2001 who loved this place.
Cache is at N 51.14.(B+A) (A+B) (Bx3) W 000.21.(B+B+A) (A+B+A+B) (Bx3)
The cache has a log book only .
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