This cache is to replace the Archived original... (Which I have now removed as was actually still there!)
Ospringe St Peter and St Paul Church.
To find the cache answer these Qs to get you a new set of coords
At the notice board is a plaque telling you who funded the board...
Using the 5 words in the quotations, make them A-Z (there are 26 letters helpfully)... solve the letters to numbers to get the coords...
N51 (Q-B) (J-N+Z) . (E/F) (H-C) (R-S)
E000 (K-T-G) (A-P) . (W-M-T) (O-V-I) (D-L+Y)
Text from the original cache page by "Woppy'n'Jules"...
St Peter's and St Paul's Church at Ospringe is sited at the head of the old sacred spring that gave its name to this area in days of old. The spring rose under what is now the nearby Victorian bier house, (where coffins where placed before burial), and then flowed along the road, named Water Lane, to the old Roman road, now the A2. Where the stream joins the Roman A2 an old Templar hospital was sited. Two buildings of which remain are now preserved as the 'Maison Dieu' museum.
This local church, guards the valley with an unusual 'wise old owl' presence which will be all too obvious as you look up. Either side of the main door are carved two stylised templar knights... all in all an interesting place!
It dates from early Norman times and has two Norman doorways and a massive Norman font as well as 13th century arches. The size the church is quite large for a small village. In fact it has shrunk, as it once had a detached Lady Chapel in the churchyard, to the east of the chancel. The saddleback tower is rare outside of Germany and is now a registered bat roost. Once upon a time St Peter's and St Paul's had a a distinctive round tower. However this collapsed in 1695 while the bells were being rung as a loyal tribute to William III, who was passing through Ospringe Street at the time.
The whole of Ospringe, now a parish of Faversham, is riddled with history...from heaps of mesolithic flints just under the surface, to Britain's first Roman encampment at Judds Folly, through to the WW2 pillbox built into the walls of its last remaining pub, on the main Watling Street (A2).
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