The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . AN OLD COTTAGE AT CRAWLEY. and a few houses on the same side of the street belongto Crawley. In these later years the church, once kept rigidlylocked, is generally open, and the celebrated inscriptioncarved on one of the tie-beams of the nave is to be is in old English characters, gilded, and runs in thisadmonitory fashion : gjatt p focle befoar, for foarlMg gooo raakgtfe man blpbel§e war be for folate comjjtjj be jjpbe When the stranger stands puzzling it out, unconsciousof not being alone, it is sufficiently startling to hear. 4
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . AN OLD COTTAGE AT CRAWLEY. and a few houses on the same side of the street belongto Crawley. In these later years the church, once kept rigidlylocked, is generally open, and the celebrated inscriptioncarved on one of the tie-beams of the nave is to be is in old English characters, gilded, and runs in thisadmonitory fashion : gjatt p focle befoar, for foarlMg gooo raakgtfe man blpbel§e war be for folate comjjtjj be jjpbe When the stranger stands puzzling it out, unconsciousof not being alone, it is sufficiently startling to hear. 4 > ooo Eh 100 THE BRIGHTON ROAD the unexpected voice of the sexton, be hynde,remarking that it is arnshunt. The sturdy old tower is crowned with a gildedweather vane representing Noahs dove returning tothe Ark with the olive-leaf, when the waters wereabated from off the earth : a device peculiarlyappropriate, intentionally or not, to Crawley, over-looking the oft-flooded valley of the Mole. But the most interesting feature of this church isthe rude representation of the Trinity carved on thewestern face of the tower : three awful figures of veryancient date, on a diminishing scale, built into fifteenth-century niches. Above, on the largest scale, is theSupreme Being, holding what seems to be intendedfor a wheel, one of the ancient symbols of sculptor, endeavouring to realise the grovellingsuperstition of his remote age, has put his fear ofGod, in a very literal sense, into the grim, truculent,merciless, all-judging smile of the image ; and thus,in enduring stone, we h
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