Church Micro 2782 - East Sutton Multi-cache
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Church Micro 2782 - East Sutton
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St Peter's and St Paul's Church at East Sutton, Kent, was begun in the mid-13th century or earlier with additions in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Restoration work was carried out by the Victorians and recently. The church was locked when I visited.
The church is constructed of roughly coursed stone and has a plain tiled roof. The 13th-century west tower comprises three stages with buttresses on the north-east, north-west and south-west corners and a taller attached stair turret on the south-east corner.
The 14th century nave is flanked on each side by aisles added in the early 15th century. The external walls of both aisles are buttressed and have a moulded stone plinth and a string course topped by a battlemented parapet. The aisles are divided from the nave with arcades of four pointed arches with octagonal columns and moulded capitals and bases. The capitals differ on the two arcades. Each aisle contains two three-lighted arched windows. The aisles have shallow lean-to roofs, but evidence internally suggests that these were steeper before the 15th century.
The chancel is flanked by chapels on each side, divided from them by arcades of two pointed arches, again with octagonal columns. Each chapel is buttressed and has a steeply pitched roof taller than the chancel. The north chapel has an intricately traceried three-lighted window on the north side containing quatrefoils and sexfoils and stars.
Each chapel is connected to the corresponding aisle with a single arch probably from the early 15th century. The roofs of the nave and chancel feature octagonal crown post trusses; the three in the nave have moulded capitals and bosses. The 13th century hexagonal font stands on seven plain columns on a hexagonal base.
The south wall of the sanctuary, the south wall of the south chapel and the east wall of the north chapel each contain a piscina. The carved wooden pulpit is hexagonal and early 17th-century.
The church contains a large number of memorials to members of the Filmer family former owners of the adjacent house of East Sutton Park. Care should be exercised photographing on the south side of the site at East Sutton Park is now a prison and a member of staff started shouting at me - in case I had taken any photos of the prison itself.
The following coordinates will take you to a Memorial. To work out ABCD, you will need the year from "The Men of East Sutton lost their lives in the Great War ABCD - 1919)
The cache is located at:
N51 12.(D+5) (A+3) (B)
E000 36.(B-1) (D+2) (C+1)
“If anybody 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 also a Church Micro Stats page found via the Bookmark list”
Additional Hints
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Pnpur Qvfcrafre