Highways and byways in Surrey . k and the great beams of the belfry. Manychurches have windows built high in the west end, throughwhich part of the splendour of the setting sun can filter;but this window is set low, and the red sky floods thechurch. From the church to Crowhurst Place a mile away runs aninteresting byway, the only one in Surrey, so far as I know,built by a private gentleman of permanent material, extendingfor a mile from his house to his place of worship. In the year1631 the John Gainsford of the day, at the fine old age of 76,determined he would walk wet to church no more. He
Highways and byways in Surrey . k and the great beams of the belfry. Manychurches have windows built high in the west end, throughwhich part of the splendour of the setting sun can filter;but this window is set low, and the red sky floods thechurch. From the church to Crowhurst Place a mile away runs aninteresting byway, the only one in Surrey, so far as I know,built by a private gentleman of permanent material, extendingfor a mile from his house to his place of worship. In the year1631 the John Gainsford of the day, at the fine old age of 76,determined he would walk wet to church no more. He had a SIX WIVES: FIFTEEN DAUGHTERS 411 Stone-flagged causeway laid from the manor-house to thechurchyard, • it being before, as the Parish Register informsyou, a loathsom durtie way every stepp. He paid twoworkmen fifty pounds for the job, and the causeway is still tobe picked out across the meadovvs. The Gainsfords were one of the l)est, though not the greatestof the old Surrey ftimilies. They are first heard of in the reign.
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