Church Micro 5193.... Enfield - St Lukes Traditional Cache

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Southerntrekker: Hi There

As the owner has not responded to either my log or my colleague's previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.

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Hidden : 2/11/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is my first placed cache, so I thought it should be a bit special to me.  My parents were married in St Lukes in 1956.  I was born in Phipps Hatch Lane and spent many hours in and around the church in my younger years.

St Luke’s church was deliberately designed to be built in two phases so that the nave could be extended westwards later if and when the congregation increased. The foundation stone was laid in October 1898 and the church was dedicated to St Luke the Evangelist and consecrated on 22nd November 1899. Earlier in 1899, in anticipation of completion of the new church, the parishes of St John’s and St Luke’s were separated. St Luke’s became an independent parish, carved out of the old St John’s parish. St Luke’s parish took only a tiny proportion of the area of the old St John’s parish but a substantial part of the population. Mr Macy, who had until the separation of the parishes been the vicar of the old St John’s, became the first vicar of St Luke’s and built a large vicarage for St Luke’s on land which he had purchased for that purpose on Browning Road. Mr Macy and his wife not only paid for the Church Institute and the vicarage at St Luke’s but were also the major contributors to the fund for the building of St Luke’s. By 1904 the anticipated extension to St Luke’s was needed. The work was completed early in 1906. Shortly afterwards, Mr Macy retired through ill-health. In the early 1980’s as both parishes were struggling financially, discussions began with a view to reunifying the two parishes. The parishes of St John’s and St Luke’s, which had been separated in 1899, were reunified nearly a century later in December 1997, when Mr Noddings was inducted as vicar of the parish of St John the Baptist and St Luke the Evangelist, Clay Hill.

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