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Church Micro 2457 Kenton All Saints Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/19/2012
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Terrain:
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The tiny village of Kenton was once a railway junction, although you'd need a fairly vivid imagination to picture it now. The Mid Suffolk Light Railway ran through to the north of the church, and in 1912 the company put in a spur line to Debenham, the only town anywhere near the route of the line, albeit one of Suffolk's smallest. It was an ill-conceived plan; they never obtained a passenger licence for it, and its usefulness for freight was somewhat curtailed by their inability to bring it closer to Debenham than a field a mile to the north of the town. It absorbed a huge amount of the company's capital, and was probably partly responsible for the cutailment of The Middy's further development. . It is ironic that the only substantial relic of the railway is on this spur, the embankments of a bridge over the B1077.

Medieval All Saints has survived much more successfully, of course, although it was not immune to 19th Century Victorian restoration.

Within the south porch is an interesting doorway, right out at the very end of the Norman period before it tips into Early English. You step through it into a neat, clean interior, obviously very well loved and cared for. There is a good example of a 13th century arcaded Purbeck marble font set on 19th Century legs, and indeed much of what you see here dates from considerable Victorian restoration. A particularly interesting medieval survival is the set of consecration crosses, outlined in the cutaway 19th century plaster. Many of these survive in East Anglia because with walls made of flint rubble rather than stone, it was impossible for the Victorians to rake out the old plaster as they did in many of England's churches.

This listing contains excerpts from Simon Knott's excellent website www.suffolkchurches.co.uk , with grateful thanks. If anyone would like to expand this Church Micro numbered series please do by contacting sadexploration via www.geocaching.com so that he can keep track of the church numbers and names to avoid duplication.

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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)