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Touring Great Britain

Touring Great Britain


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...The ancient roofed-in fragment of a church is here, which, like the Cathedral of Siena, never was completed, and the incompleteness of this church indicates the catastrophe of the end of prosperity; and along the side of the interior lie stone Crusaders sleeping through the centuries under ancient fretted canopies of stone. We have seen few church interiors more impressive. The door is left open--no one does wrong in Winchelsea!--and so the church is yours. But you have printed permission to drop a coin in a box to aid in the care of the building and you are trusted to leave a penny or so to pay for the little descriptive leaflet of the church. This is the only church we have seen in which still stands the "family pew"; a paneled-oak pew, shoulder-high in front, higher at the back, set against the wall and entered through a high tight door; it is lined inside with baize, and has kneeling-chairs and footstools and a long seat and, around the inner side of it, a bench. It is a place in which the "family" have been set apart for generations. Park gates at the upper end of the town, with perfection of care as to grounds and trees, indicate that "families" are still here, and indeed all the land around Winchelsea is owned by rich folk who have agreed among themselves to buy any land within the town that comes upon the market rather than to admit any who might spoil the place. For others as well as we have felt the charm of this delectable place. CHAPTER XVII A NEW CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE AT picturesque Winchelsea we did a very practical thing, for all four of us, in the secluded yard of the inn, busied ourselves with penknives in picking out pieces of flint from the tires; we picked out over thirty and filled the little sharp gashes w...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151289483
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151289485
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr

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