St Mark’s Church was built in 1883 as a daughter church of St John’s. It was at a time when Hale was expanding massively due to the little hamlet of Aldershot next door becoming a Garrison town. The land was given by Bishop Sumner who was the Bishop of Winchester at the time. But the church itself was built by the community and for the community. Locals collected flints from the common to build the walls, rather surprisingly there are no foundations and the roof was placed on the walls without being fixed. (This has now been amended!)
There is a Tudor (or Jacobean) altar in the building (we don’t know where it comes from) and there is a beautiful pipe organ which was donated by Emily Mangles, a local at the time. In the chancel are wall paintings, painted by Kitty Milroy, another local, and local children acted as the models for the wall paintings in the chancel.
To find the cache, locate the foundation stone for the "Church Hall Community Centre". This shows the date that the stone was laid.
AB = Day of the month, CD = The Month, EFGH = The Year
The cache can be found at N 51 1(B/D).AH(F-H) W 000 4(G-D).G(C-E)(F/G+C+E)
 Congratulations to zingzilla for being FTF!
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