The
huge bulk of this 1861 church comes as some surprise in the
pleasant terraced streets between Unthank Road and Newmarket Road.
Holy Trinity is a short walk from the city centre, but it is hidden
from view by the blocks of flats of Chapelfield. The design was by
William Smith, a notable London architect, although his only other
work in Norfolk is the rather elegant little church at Fulmodeston
of a couple of decades later. Nobody could accuse Holy Trinity of
elegance, but it is certainly splendid. The great tower rises to an
octagonal bell stage before being topped off at 40m with a somewhat
disproportionate octagonal spire with eight lucarnes.
Smith
seems to have shoe-horned this massive church into its narrow site,
and it is a difficult building to see from a distance. It is is the
biggest Victorian church in Norwich, and was designed to hold a
thousand people. It is the only cruciform church with a central
tower in the city, other than the two cathedrals.
1861 is
far too early for the later Anglo-catholic enthusiasms of the city,
and Holy Trinity was an evangelical barn from the start.
To find the cache you have to go to the above coords and find
a white information sign. To solve the coordinates you must use the
phone number of the church office that starts 01603 ABCDEF
The cache can be found at the coordinates: N 52° 37.ABC E 001°
16.DEF
A = first digit - 2
B = second digit + 5
C = third digit + 7
D = fourth digit + 5
E = fifth digit + 7
F = sixth digit + 2
The cache is a small screw top container with a log book
in but no pen, so bring a pen/pencil and replace as found. Oh and
watch out for muggles!
If anybody would like
to expand this series please do, I would just ask that you could
let
sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the
Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
There is now a Church Micro statistics page which can be
viewed via the bookmark list