About St George's Church
St George's is a stone built church with a tower and a gabled porch.
The church is situated a little to the east of the hamlet of St Georges which developed round Castle Farm.
Parts of the church date back to the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries with 19th century restoration including the rebuilding of the tower, with Victorian Gothic windows also being added to the building. The church consists of a south porch, central tower (with unusual four gabled roof), chancel and nave.
The weather vane depicts St. George and the Dragon, which give's the cache it's additional subtitle.
On the southern side of the church is a medieval stone cross with St. Georges Church The River Ely GWR South Wales intercity line Coedarhydyglyn Estate with glimpse of house replacement head of Maltese design. The small house with steps leading directly into the churchyard was the Sunday School in the mid 19th century.
The churchyard contains a Medieval cross with three steps of roughly coursed rubble with a socket stone from which rises the narrow chamfered shaft and replaced head of Maltese format.
St George and the Dragon
According to the Golden Legend, the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place in a place he called "Silene", in Libya; the Golden Legend is the first to place this legend in Libya as a sufficiently exotic locale, where a dragon might be found. In the tenth-century Georgian narrative, the place is the fictional city of Lasia, and the idolatrous emperor who rules the city is called Selinus.
The town had a pond, as large as a lake, where a plague-bearing dragon dwelled that envenomed all the countryside. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene used to feed it two sheep every day, and when the sheep failed, they fed it their children, chosen by lottery. It happened that the lot fell on the king's daughter, who is called Sabra in some versions of the story. The king, distraught with grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.
Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess, trembling, sought to send him away, but George vowed to remain. The dragon reared out of the lake while they were conversing. Saint George fortified himself with the Sign of the Cross, charged it on horseback with his lance, and gave it a grievous wound. He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash.
The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the people at its approach. But Saint George called out to them, saying that if they consented to become Christians and be baptised, he would slay the dragon before them. The king and the people of Silene converted to Christianity, George slew the dragon, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. "Fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and children." On the site where the dragon died, the king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George, and from its altar a spring arose whose waters cured all disease.
Traditionally, the sword with which St. George slew the dragon was called Ascalon, a name recalling the city of Ashkelon, Israel. From this tradition, the name Ascalon was used by Winston Churchill for his personal aircraft during World War II (records at Bletchley Park), since St. George is the Patron Saint of England.
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The Cache
This cache should be a very quick multi cache. To find the final coordinates, simply look at the blue sign at the front of the church and make a note of the telephone number, including dialing code, which should give you 11 digits (ABCDEFGHIJK, where A = the first number listed which is a 0, etc.)
The cache is at:
N51 (K-G) K . J (E-D) H
W003 B F . C E B
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