Church Micro 8673...Charlestown Multi-cache
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Church Micro 8673...Charlestown
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A straightforward offset-cache set around St Paul's Church, Charlestown.
The cache is not located within the church grounds, so please don't search there.
What to do
The headline co-ords are for a large Celtic Cross granite War Memorial.
To find the Northings, refer to the panel on the side relating to the Great War (the side closest to the Lych Gate/Street):
A= The number of members of the Hicks family recorded on this panel.
B= The number of letters in the surname between Normington and Pope.
C= The number of times the number 9 appears in the dates on this panel.
Checksum for Northings = 11
To find the Westings, refer to the panel on the side relating to the Second World War (the side closest to the Church):
D= The number of letters in Frank's surname.
E= The number of letters in Arthur's surname.
F= The number of letters in the first name of Mr Keast.
Checksum for Westings = 21
The final cache is hidden at: N50° 20.ABC W004°45.DEF and is a short walk from the Church, but please take care crossing the road
About the Church
St Paul's is a typically Victorian structure, described by Sir John Betjeman as "in and early English style ..... lofty and mysterious". It is a traditional cruciform Church with an aisled nave, transepts and chancel. The steeple and belfry are of considerable interest. After the churchbuilding ran out of funds in 1851 there was a temporary wooden 'hutch' containing a single bell, where the belfry should be, for the next 120 years. However, an appeal was launched in the 1970s, when the Rev JFH Rees-Jones was vicar, with Dr AL Rowse as Patron of the Appeal. Dr Rowse, who lived at Trenarren, as an internationally acclaimed Elizabethan literary authority and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. The appeal was an ambitious one, with the aim of adding to the church a proper belfry, with a peal of bells, and a steeple. It was successful and, on Friday 28 July 1972, the tower and spire were consecrated and the peal of six bells blessed by Maurice, Bishop of Truro. The construction of the belfry tower was relatively conventional, using reconstituted stone and slate, but the parish was lucky enough to have a fibreglass expert on hand, Mr Leslie Lake, who supervised the construction of the entire spire as a single fibreglass moulding, during 1971/72, which was then lifted into place by a crane.
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Additional Hints
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