Church Micro -1659 St Nicholas RC Multi-cache
tuckerstribe: I could not find a new location using the current final. I have decided the best thing to do would be to archive this and look to replacing with a new cache in the future.
Church Micro -1659 St Nicholas RC
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Pakefield is a southern suburb of Lowestoft, and Lowestoft is home to Suffolk's grandest Catholic church, our Lady star of the sea.
However, like most Catholic churches in Suffolk, Our Lady isn't really big enough any more, so St Nicholas serves as its chapel of ease south of the river. St Nicholas was built by Baines and Baines of London, the same architects as Our lady Star of the Sea. It was built at the same time, and of the same materials, albeit on a much humbler scale. What makes it remarkable, however is that St Nicholas was not built as a Catholic church at all.
A hall was added to the west end of the building after the Second World War, and in 1961 the South Cliff community were one of the Congregational churches absorbed into the new United Reformed Church, and this church became Pakefield URC. Unfortunately, the changing denominational climate meant that numbers here rapidly fell, and eventually Pakefield URC closed. The building stood empty until 1995, when an approach was made to the trustees by the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia, keen to find a presence in the south Lowestoft area.
On August 11th, 1995, an emotional ecumenical service was held in the newly dedicated St Nicholas Catholic church.
The final cache can be found at: N52.A(B-1).CDD - E144.CAE
A = How many gateways lead to the church grounds (doubles count as 1)
B = How many arch windows can be found around the church
C = 19 ....9
D = On the main church door you have 4 large hinges on one of these how many elements come off the main fixing hinge?
E = How many grave stones can be found in the church yard
Final cache is no more than a nano
Many thanks to Rev. Brendan Moffatt who kindly gave us permission to put a cache in the church grounds sadly due to all the other caches close by this was however was not possible.
If any body would like to expand to 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 no need to leave the path to retrieve final cache.
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