Church Micro 1265 - Burrough Green Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 7/2/2010
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1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Another pretty church in an area of Cambridgeshire close to friends of mine's house.



St Augustine is an odd mediaeval dedication – unique in Cambridgeshire – and this is an odd church. The main core is 13th and 14th century, built of flint with occasional patches of doughy clunch or brick. The modest little tower – remarkably unadorned and with neither buttresses nor battlements – survives more or less unscathed from this period. However, the rest of the church has had a chequered history. To start with, the nave (though at core early Perpendicular) has peculiar 17th century aisles, composed of three gabled bays. The lower part of each bay is filled with a large and very severe window, the gables above plastered in a rich ochre colour and pierced by pairs of tiny windows. It’s pretty, in a ramshackle sort of way, but was clearly put up in a hurry.
The chancel has also suffered. It was once flanked by two chapels, but nothing of them survives save the communicating arcades - ghostly clunch shapes buried within flint walls. There was clearly also a structure to the east of what now survives, since there’s a big blocked-up brick arch. Precisely what was there is rather difficult to determine. The arch is decidedly much later than the rest of the chancel. Pevsner thought that it must have been an 18th century apse or chapel which has now gone, though he doesn’t explain his hypothesis and I’ve never come across anything else of the sort in the county. The plot thickens yet further because there is a reset early Y-traced window of three lights in that blocked arch. It seems most unlikely that it would have been kept in an 18th century extension – that was, after all, an era characterised by great disdain for anything gothic – but in that case, where was it moved from? Inside, there is yet more evidence of a rough history. Most noticeably the chancel arch has gone, leaving only the responds (now topped with incongruous jaunty little urns). In consequence the long flat roof is unbroken along the whole length of the church. In combination with the big bare windows in the aisles, this gives the interior a rather boxy, inelegant feel.

If any body would like to expand to this series please do, could you please let sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

yrnir ab fgbar haghearq

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)


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