Church Micro 4476…Glastonbury-St Benedicts Multi-cache
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Church Micro 4476…Glastonbury-St Benedicts
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When you find yourself at the church look at the hoppers on the rain down pipes and note the date cast on them = ABCD
The cache is not at the above co-ordinates use the puzzle below to calculate the co-ordinates to locate it.
N51, 8.(B-A)(D-A)(C+A) W002, 43.(B+C)/B)(D+A)(C-B)
Make sure you study the log there is a surprise bonus there!
For those not in the know The Church Mirco Series is intended to be as big a cache size as you can muster, Steve (sadexploration) explains.
Click here page 4.
The series is called ‘Church Micro’ I encourage cachers to hide as large a cache as it's possible to. It’s just that Church 2.5 Lt clip box’ didn’t quite roll off the tongue as well.
So onto the church description.
The church was originally dedicated to St. Benignus or St. Bennings and retained this until the middle of the 17th century. Bishop Benignus was a great friend and disciple of St. Patrick and became his successor. In 1091 the monks of Glastonbury took the relics of a holy man named Beon or Beonna from Meare to be added to the collection at Glastonbury Abbey; at his last resting place an oration was delivered and, after a liberal offering, a church was built on the site being consecrated around 1100. Unfortunately the monks confused Beon the hermit of Meare with Benignus the successor of St. Patrick, and the dedication was to St. Benignus rather than St. Beon. The present church was thought to have been built on the same site around 1520 by Abbot Bere (1493 - 1524), a learned and cultured friend of Erasmus. You can see his monogram, RB, over the north porch, pictured right. By comparison with other Somerset churches, a date of 1473 is thought to be more likely. In the north porch can also be seen the little window used by lepers to receive the holy sacrament. The church was built in the perpendicular style with a clerestoried nave and embattled west tower. The North aisle used to be a chapel, Sharpham chapel, where Sir Henry Gould, a justice of the peace to the King's Bench in 1699, is buried. Around 1840 much of the stained glass was installed, details of which are summarised below. The church was restored in 1885 when the North Aisle was rebuilt and the nave roof renewed. The chapel in the South aisle was built by the Revd Allnutt in 1862 in memory of his two daughters who died aged 3 days and 14 years; a brass plaque records the sad details. It was furnished as a lady chapel by Preb. Townsend and dedicated in 1953. The organ was installed in 1873 and rebuilt in 1927. The carvings on the nave roof corbels are noteworthy. One bears what is known as the Arms of Joseph of Arimathea; the Greek cross with two cruets containing the blood and sweat of Christ which Joseph brought with him to Glastonbury. Another shows St. Benignus vested as a Bishop with a tree in his hand instead of a pastoral staff. With this he set forth to find St. Patrick. The origin of the crucifix on the wall above the chancel arch is unknown.
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