Slightly away from the village of Ebernoe in a clearing on the wooded common stands Holy Trinity Church. Work started in 1865 at the instruction of Mr. William Peachey, Lord of the Manor, and it was consecrated on the 01 September, 1868. The initials of W Peachey were on the foundation stone at the west end, but this is now illegible. Ebernoe was a remote part of the parish of Kirdford and, because of the distance from the parish church, a new parish was created in 1874, using the recently built chapel.
The church stands by a former school. It is built of polychrome brick. The nave and chancel have paired lancets, larger in the nave, with the exception of a traceried east window of four lights and three smaller ones across the west end beneath an open belfry. The interior has been whitened, including the boarded nave roof, though the trussed chancel one has been little altered.
The interior was always plain except for foliage corbels on the chancel arch. The whole is a good example of the kind of modest country church that could be built for £1200, a sum within the reach of a single benefactor.
To find the cache, go to the published co-ordinates, and you should find yourself in front of the church porch. Here you find the clues needed to work out the final co-ordinates:
Firstly, there is a pattern of holes in the wood at each side of porch where the roof extends beyond the brickwork.
A = Number of holes
B = number of sides to the shape they form
Secondly, around the door arch are a number of bricks with the long sides exposed.
C = Number of yellow bricks
D = Number of black bricks
Thirdly, there is a plaque above the bench on one side of the porch in memory of some members of the Abbott family.
E = last digit in Araminta's year of birth
F = third digit in Olwen's year of birth
The cache should then be found at N51º 02.FCB W000º 36.EA(D-B)
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