Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . he memory ofNathaniel Marchant, , chiselled athis own request by his friend Chantrey. Two or three beautiful paintedwindows have been inserted in quite recent years. A few of the other windowshave been altered at various dates; but in spite of all that has been done tlie|)lace has not lost its antique look; and few churches could more sharply pointthe moral of an elegy which takes for its text the fleetingness of life and theabidingncss of the inanimate. It is rare indeed tliat a church is so approp
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . he memory ofNathaniel Marchant, , chiselled athis own request by his friend Chantrey. Two or three beautiful paintedwindows have been inserted in quite recent years. A few of the other windowshave been altered at various dates; but in spite of all that has been done tlie|)lace has not lost its antique look; and few churches could more sharply pointthe moral of an elegy which takes for its text the fleetingness of life and theabidingncss of the inanimate. It is rare indeed tliat a church is so appropriately placed as tliis. Within along stones throw of two high roads, it is as secluded as it would be in SleepyHollow itself. The churchyard forms the apex of a triangle, and is immediatelysurrounded by park, woodland, and plantations. From the park it is separatedonly by a low wall, and a view of the church is one of the most charmingglimpses to be obtained from the mansion of Stoke on the rising ground a fewhundred paces away. This great white building, colonnaded and cupolaed, is in. MMMfflgeays monument. Stoke Poges.] SIR EDWARD COKE. 373 the very peculiar taste of Wyatt. In the park, and to be seen from the church-yard, is a column erected by John Penn to commemorate Sir Edward Coke. On a lower site in the park, and within a few yards from Stoke Church,stands the old manor-house, the residence of the lords of the domain until thebuilding of Wyatts more pretentious house. The contrast is all in favour ofthe ivy-covered, red-brick, home-like place, gabled and unassuming, built sometime in Elizabeths reign. Sir Edward Coke married for his second wife LadyHatton, mdow of Sir William Hatton, nephew and heir of Sir ChristopherHatton, Queen Elizabeths Lord Chancellor. Gray has laid the scene of his Long Story at old Stoke manor-house in Hattons time, although Sir Christophernever lived there. An often-quoted passage occurs in his descrij^tion of the vener-able spot— In Britain
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