The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . dscatter its remains abroad. Instead, they fenced itaround with as decorative a rustic railing as mightwell be contrived out of cut boughs, all innocent ofthe carpenter and still retaining their bark, and theyplanted the enclosure with flowers and tender saplings,so that this venerable ruin became a very attractiveruin indeed. Rowlandson has preserved for us a view of Crawleyas it appeared in 1789, when he toured the road andsketched, while his companion, Henry Wigstead, tooknotes for his book, An Excursion to Brighthelmstone. 188 THE BRIG
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . dscatter its remains abroad. Instead, they fenced itaround with as decorative a rustic railing as mightwell be contrived out of cut boughs, all innocent ofthe carpenter and still retaining their bark, and theyplanted the enclosure with flowers and tender saplings,so that this venerable ruin became a very attractiveruin indeed. Rowlandson has preserved for us a view of Crawleyas it appeared in 1789, when he toured the road andsketched, while his companion, Henry Wigstead, tooknotes for his book, An Excursion to Brighthelmstone. 188 THE BRIGHTON ROAD It is a work of the dreadfullest ditch-water dulness,saved only by the artists illustrations. That theyshould have lived, you who see the reproduction willnot wonder. The old sign spans the way, as of yore,but Crawley is otherwise greatly changed. An odd fact, unknown to those who merely passthrough the place, is that the greater part of Crawley is not in that parish at all, but inthe adjoining parish of Ifield. Only the church ?--* .\ *i. 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
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