Church Micro 12487...Oxwick - All Saints Traditional Geocache
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Church Micro 12487...Oxwick - All Saints
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YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BISON CONTAINER WHICH IS EASY TO FIND SO THAT YOU CAN SPEND SOME TIME LOOKING AROUND THIS ATMOSPHERIC CHURCH - - BRING A PEN There is always something particularly eerie about a church whose ruination is recent. Until 1940, this was a working building but it fell into disuse and was declared redundant in 1946. In those unsentimental days it befell the fate of all such abandoned churches, having its roofs removed in a formal act of dereliction. There must be many people alive today who remember that happening. Although not far from a back lane between Colkirk and Whissonsett, there is no proper road to the church and no real village. The church is concealed from the road by a couple of cottages, that's all, but enough to make it easy to forget that it was there. In 1991 it was found to be overgrown and inaccessible, a mass of ivy and elder, quietly going back to nature. And that might have been the end of the story. Then along came Norfolk County Council, who have made it their business to save and consolidate 20 or so of the most significant of Norfolk's 100-plus ruined churches. In 1993, the ruin was completely cleared of overgrowth and the walls topped off to prevent further decay. The graveyard was also cleared, and several of the graves showed signs of being recently maintained. Oxwick had obviously lost its tower some time in the 18th or early 19th century, and the base of the tower had been converted into a shack-like vestry. This looks most odd now that it is roofless. Also odd is the arrangement of windows in the west wall of the nave. There are two high up that must once have flanked the tower which are mysterious. It was possible that at some time there may have been a gallery. The single Commonwealth War Grave is the final resting place of Private Alfred Cecil Scott who was born in Lincolnshire in 1895 although his parents, Alfred and Emma, were farming in Oxwick by the time of Alfred’s death in 1918. Alfred initially enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment in February 1916. However, he was later posted to one of the Agricultural Companies of the Labour Corps back in England. The Labour Corps was formed in 1916 and had nearly 390,000 men of whom 175,000 worked in the UK to provide extra manpower in essential activities such as farming and mining. The majority of the men in the Labour Corps had been deemed medically unfit for front line active service, usually due to having been wounded, but found capable of doing other wartime work. Alfred was assigned to one of the five Agricultural Companies of the Labour Corps whose HQs were in Norwich. He died locally on 25 November 1918, a fortnight after the war ended, and was buried at All Saints Church, Oxwick. Because Alfred had served in the military, he was entitled to a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone, the inscription on which reads: Dearly loved. The church is still consecrated and has at least one service each year, often by candlelight. THIS CACHE IS PLACED WITH KIND PERMISSION OF THE RECTOR OF THE UPPER WENSUM BENEFICE OF CHURCHES
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