Part of the Church Micro series started by sadexploration in November 2007
The cache is not at the published coordinates, but instead you should find yourself in front of a stone laid by Mrs Davies-Gilbert.
The church does have parking nearby.
To find the cache you will need to find the date on the stone, and those letters are used in the formula for calculating the cache’s coordinates:
ABrd OCTOBER CD11
The cache is located a short walk away at:
N50.4(A+B+C).9(A*B)(A+B) (* = Multiply!)
E000.C(D-C).(A-C)8(A+A)
Congratulations to The Slaughter Family on a FTF!
Built in 1911 by W H Murray, possibly helped by his son, C H Murra, this replaced an iron church known as St Andrew, Norway, founded in 1885 from Christ Church, Seaside.
The style of the church is free Perp in dark red brick, contrasted with white stone dressings. Particularly indoors, the combination of the brick and the dark roof is perhaps rather oppressive. Outside, there is no tower and the low aisles and tall clerestory windows with panelled tracery and prominent transoms may derive ultimately from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, though the detail, notably at roof-level, is far removed. and the roofs are wood, supported on shafts.
The proportions of the interior are broader and there is no obvious precedent for one less happy feature, whereby an extension on the nave side of each pier of the low arcade, leads in turn to a smaller shaft rising to the wooden roof. There is an eastern apse with more windows like the clerestory and a low western baptistery with lancets, which looks like an afterthought but appears to be part of the original design. Costing £5181, it is a simple district church with few fittings of note.
The cache contains a log and pencil only, without room for swaps or TBs.
It’s a small magnetic container.
Take care when crossing the road - if you need to!
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For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him at churchmicro@gmail.com.
See also the Church Micro Statistics and Home pages for further information about the series.
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