Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . sloping ground uponthe left bank of the Welland, andon the edge of the county of Lin-coln. On the Northamptonshire sidethe ground slopes upwards to theplateau, crowned by the woods andlawns of Burghley Park. Notwith-standing the division of the counties,there is a forobridge quarter ofsome size; and the main street is partof the Great North Road, borderedon either side by picturesque houses,old and new. It passes the George, an ancient hotel, still as ever a comfortable halting-place; half-way up the ac
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . sloping ground uponthe left bank of the Welland, andon the edge of the county of Lin-coln. On the Northamptonshire sidethe ground slopes upwards to theplateau, crowned by the woods andlawns of Burghley Park. Notwith-standing the division of the counties,there is a forobridge quarter ofsome size; and the main street is partof the Great North Road, borderedon either side by picturesque houses,old and new. It passes the George, an ancient hotel, still as ever a comfortable halting-place; half-way up the acclivitythe tower of St. Martins Church varies pleasantly the domestic at the boundary of the park the houses cease, and after a short distancewe arrive at the grand Elizabethan gateway, not unworthy of the palace to whichit gives admission. But it is only of the last home of the Cecils that we must now speak. Church was built by John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln, about the year1482, on the site of one erected in the twelfth century by an Abbot of Peterborough,. 6^2 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES [Stamford and and destroyed in tlie Lancastrian wars. It is a good example of the workof the period, tliough, as usual, a little cold and monotonous in design; thetower, especially its belfry stage, being the best feature. The church has aisles,the northern being prolonged as far as the east wall of the chancel, the southernstopping one bay short. In the year 1864 an addition was made to the easternpart of the north aisle, and the whole now forms the mortuary chapel of the Cecilfamily. Of their monuments, however, only three call for special notice. The first,though not the oldest, is a vast marble pile erected against the north wall, in com-memoration of John, Earl of Exeter, who died in the year 1700, and of his are sculptured in half-reclining postures; a figure standing on the one siderepresents Minerva, that on the other, the Goddess of the Arts and Sc
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