Benchmark & 1GL Bolt - St Botolph - Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire
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N 52° 43.488 W 001° 04.090
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A cut benchmark & 1GL bolt on the west face of St Botolph's church tower, Ratcliffe on the Wreake.
Waymark Code: WM1432P
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/05/2021
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A cut benchmark & 1GL bolt on the west face of St Botolph's church tower, Ratcliffe on the Wreake.
|
Square |
Easting |
Northing |
Mark type |
Description |
Height |
Order |
Datum |
Verified year |
Levelling year |
Metres above ground |
|
SK |
6303 |
1453 |
CUT MARK |
ST BOTOLPHS CH W FACE NW ANG |
66.790 |
3 |
'N' |
1985 |
1966 |
1.000 |
"This bench mark was used during the First primary levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 219.5990 feet [66.9338 metres] above mean sea level (Liverpool datum). It was included as a side level on the Coventry to Lincoln levelling line. The surveyor's description was No. 70(a). Ratcliff Church. Bolt in North-west angle of tower ; 1.97 ft. above surface. (p328)."
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"Church. C14, spire rebuilt 1812 and church restored 1876. Granite rubble stone with stone dressings, ashlar spire, and Swithland slate roofs. Stone coped gables. W tower, nave, chancel and S porch. W tower of two stages with short diagonal buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, N door, clock face to N, three 2 light bell openings, gargoyles, battlements and tall crocketted needle spire with two tiers of lucarnes. Nave has stepped buttresses. Inside, triple chamfered nave arch on polygonal responds, four bay N arcade on octagonal piers, blocked when N aisle demolished c1800. Three N windows, two with Y tracery and one with intersected tracery. N door. Three S windows with Geometric tracery. C19 four bay roof with curved braces and wall pieces on stone corbels. Double chamfered chancel arch on polygonal responds. Early C14 chancel with two N windows with Geometric tracery, E window with recticulated tracery and stained glass of 1878 and three S windows with Geometric or curvilinear tracery. The middle of these has fragments of medieval glass including grisaille quarries. N door. N tomb recess with double chamfered arch and effigy of priest, c1300, the head under a crocketed gable. Piscina and triple sedilia. C19 three bay roof similar to nave. C12/C13 round font on probably C19 octagonal base. S porch rebuilt 1967. Kelly?s Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1881, and Pevsner."
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