Publisher's Synopsis
This historical work has been digitally restored using the latest technology, making it available in digital and printed form. The original is painstakingly manually quality-checked, leaving fresh, easy-to-read literature.About this book:
Contains over 250 pages and 110 illustrations of abbeys and churches in England and Wales with descriptions and their history.
Chapters in this book:
St. George's Chapel, Windsor: The English Escurial
Deepdale: A Lay Bishop's Church
Beverley Minster
Hadleigh: A Martyr's Church
Cirencester: A Typical Country Town
The Chapels In "The Tower" For King and Captive
Olney: A Hymn-Writers' Church
Scarborough And Filey: Two Yorkshire Health Resorts
Great Brington: Graves of the Washingtons and Spencers
Abingdon: A Church of Many Aisles
Wrexham and Gresford: Two Great Welsh Churches
St. Lawrence and Bonchurch; Perivale; Bemerton: Some Tiny Churches
Fairford: Some Famous Windows
St. Mary's, Oxford, and St. Mary's, Cambridge: Two University Churches
Swaffham Prior and the Trimleys: Two Churches in One Churchyard
St. Botolph's, Boston: A Beacon in the Fens
Ottery St. Mary: A Great Devonshire Church
Leeds and Doncaster: Memories of Recent Labour
Amesbury: An Ancient Sanctuary
St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich: A Famous Civic Church
Ashford: The Home of the Smythes
Chenies: Graves of the Russells
Louth: A Tall Spire in the Plains
St. Clement Danes': The Church of the Great Lexicographer
Cobham: A Series of Ancient Brasses
Selby: A Great Yorkshire Abbey
Brixworth and Bradford-on-Avon: A Century After Augustine
Wimborne Minster: A Saxon Foundation
Halifax and Bradford: Among Spinners and Weavers
All Saints', Derby: "The Pride of Derby Town"
Berwick-on-Tweed: A Puritans' Church
Evesham Abbey: A Destructive Reformation
Higham Ferrer: An Archbishop's Thankoffering
Cartmel: A Tower Within a Tower
Ludlow: "The Noblest Parish Church in England"
East Dereham, Berkeley, and Bronllys: Some Campanile Towers
Pershore: The Fragment Which Remains
Howden: A Story Writ in Stone
St. Peter's, Wolverhampton: In the Heart of the Black Country
Bishopsbourne: Memories of the "Judicious Hooker"
Excerpt from the book:
The two side chapels, that of Rokeby on the north, and Holdsworth on the south, almost produce the effect of transepts, though the latter is much the larger. The font is a Norman one, of stone, with fine Perpendicular canopy. Near it is the quaint figure of an old man, which holds the poor-box. It represents "Old Tristram," in his life-time a professional beggar in Halifax. At the west end of the south aisle stands what is to some the most interesting monument in the church. It is in memory of Robert Farrer, a native of Halifax, last Prior of Nostel, subsequently Protestant Bishop of St. David's, and finally burnt for heresy in 1555.
