. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . inthe south-east part of the country, here is another river Avon,which runs down to Bath, and two branches or sources of whichmeet here. There is a pretty ridge of ground, the base of whichis a mile, or a mile and a half, wide. On each side of this ridge,a branch of the river runs down, through a flat of very fine mea-dows. The town and the beautiful remains of the famous old abbeystand on the rounded spot which terminates this ridge; and justbelow, nearly close to the town, the two bran
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . inthe south-east part of the country, here is another river Avon,which runs down to Bath, and two branches or sources of whichmeet here. There is a pretty ridge of ground, the base of whichis a mile, or a mile and a half, wide. On each side of this ridge,a branch of the river runs down, through a flat of very fine mea-dows. The town and the beautiful remains of the famous old abbeystand on the rounded spot which terminates this ridge; and justbelow, nearly close to the town, the two branches of the river meet,and then they begin to be called the Avon. The land round aboutis excellent, and of a great variety of forms. The trees are loftyand fine : so that, what with the water, the meadows, the fine cattleand sheep—and, as I hear, the absence of hard-pinching poverty —this is a very pleasant place. Chichester Market Cross is still more beautiful than that ofMalmesbury; indeed, Mr. Britton considers it to be the mostenriched and beautiful example of this class of buildings in En°--. Chap. OLD ENGLAND. 107 land ; and if the reader will turn to our engraving- (Fig. 1660), hewill, we think, give every credit to this judgment, for certainly it isdifficult to imagine anything of the kind more rich or more form is an octagon. There is a large central column, fromwhich numerous bold ribs spring upward to the vaulted roof. Thewalls are panelled, and have a parapet, pinnacles, and flying but-tresses, and the whole is sustained on eight pier buttresses. Thecross was erected by Bishop Story near the close of the loih are shields attached to the buttresses, on which his arms areimpaled with those of his sovereign. Many of our old English towns, we have had occasion elsewhereto remark, had their origin in religious establishments, founded bythe early teachers of Christianity. Evesham, in Worcestershire, isone example of this religious cre
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