The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN is a plain rectangular building, the chancel and nave combined measuring 45 ft. by 19 ft. 8 in. At the west end is a small tower with a vestry on the north side and a porch on the south.
Though the site is old, the church in its present form dates from 1816, and is a plain and rather unattractive building with a low-pitched slated roof, plastered walls and a gabled yellow brick tower.
All the windows have wooden frames, the east one having three cinquefoiled lights with perpendicular tracery. The north and south windows have two plain lights each under square heads. Above the doorway from the tower to the nave is an old window arch, partly blocked, through which the west window of the tower is seen.
On the north side of the east window is a rudely carved white marble wall tablet to William Pincke, 1694, second son of Henry Pincke of Kempshott. There are other gravestones of the Pincke family.
In the east window are a few fragments of mediaeval glass and six small white and gold quarries of Flemish glass, with the Crucifixion, the serpent in the wilderness, St. John Baptist (dated 1520), the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth, Susanna and the elders, and the healing of Lazarus.
This church is on the A339 Basingstoke to Alton road; it is best approached from Basingstoke as the parking spot is then on your left, when you leave continue towards Alton for a few hundred yards where you can safely turn around at the road junction.
Just inside the gate is the head stone for
Lillian Shore
Who died A B th March ACDE aged GH
And her Husband William
The cache can be found at N51 13.B (D/2) E…W001 03.G E (C-B)
If you add up all the digits in the final coordinates it will come to 42
You will find that the church is now a home, so please respect the privacy of the home owners, you do not have to go anywhere near the church, the information you need is just inside the gate, and the cache is not on church grounds. By law the home owner has to allow access to a consecrated site.