. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . last named, on all accountsthe first parish chm-cli in England. But it has attained its Avidest, ite deathlessrenown from tlie close link which binds its name to the tragic story of the boy-poet, Thomas Chatterton, one of the saddest in allthe long annals of unappreciated genius. It isseldom possible to apply the Berkeleian theory,and discover the external, exciting cause of aliterary genesis; but the monk, Thomas Rowley,would never have been invented, the manuscriptswhich Horace Walpole accepted as ge
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . last named, on all accountsthe first parish chm-cli in England. But it has attained its Avidest, ite deathlessrenown from tlie close link which binds its name to the tragic story of the boy-poet, Thomas Chatterton, one of the saddest in allthe long annals of unappreciated genius. It isseldom possible to apply the Berkeleian theory,and discover the external, exciting cause of aliterary genesis; but the monk, Thomas Rowley,would never have been invented, the manuscriptswhich Horace Walpole accepted as genuine wouldnever have been written, but for the overmaster-ing influence upon Chattertons mental being ofthe ancient church of St. Mary RedclifPe, underwhose shadow he was born and brought up, besidewhose monuments he sat and meditated, and among ^ whose muniments he rummaged atwill. No one,therefore, canhope to compre-hend liis characterwithout catchingsomething of thespell under whichhe lived. The right wayfor a stranger toapproach Red-cliff e Church, soas to be duly im-pressed by its. THE EXTtlCIOK. St. JIaky Redcliffe.] THE NORTH PORCH. 39<) grandeur, is by tlie windingtliorouglifarc of Redcliffe Street,leading from the centre of thecity. The effect upon tlio mindmust have been even more strik-ing wlicn this street was as itis still to be seen in a paintinghy John Syer—much narrowerthan at present, with over-hanging gabled houses, Avhichhave been swept away to makeroom for lofty warehouses. Asit is, the stranger emerges froman avenue of houses upon a com-paratively open space, to see theroadway make a sharp ascent, atthe summit of which, on a naturalterrace, stands Redcliffe Chm-ch,the massive steeple springingstraight from the ground to aheight of 300 feet. It must havebeen begun when Bishop Poorewas building Salisbury Cathedral,at the commencement of thethirteenth century, resumed Avhen Henry III. was rebuilding Westminster AbbeyChurch, and completed to the spring of
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