. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. Cross, Ckucis. • Ml) IldUSK, .\li:vsiiv I EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND NORTH WILTS proportion to their years. Above the tomb hangsa crested helmet and a sword. After the Lloyds, the Pleydells held the manorand built the existing Manor House, and to theirmemory are several monumental tablets. An odd-looking piscina, like a sundial, stands in a cornerof the chancel. The massive oaken screen hasbeen poked away at the western end of the churchbeneath the belfry, but the original stone pulpitremains intact. A font of the same date (fifteenthcentury) s
. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. Cross, Ckucis. • Ml) IldUSK, .\li:vsiiv I EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND NORTH WILTS proportion to their years. Above the tomb hangsa crested helmet and a sword. After the Lloyds, the Pleydells held the manorand built the existing Manor House, and to theirmemory are several monumental tablets. An odd-looking piscina, like a sundial, stands in a cornerof the chancel. The massive oaken screen hasbeen poked away at the western end of the churchbeneath the belfry, but the original stone pulpitremains intact. A font of the same date (fifteenthcentury) succeeded a Norman one, which in itsturn had to humble itself before the questionabletaste of the Victorian era. The former font longsince had been relegated to secular service, for thevillage well; therefore, instead of removing it fromthat exalted position, a brand new copy was madeof it and perched upon the top of the Normanfont. In later years of enlightenment the strugglefor supremacy was renewed, and as fashionschange from one extreme to the othe
Size: 1809px × 1382px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectengland, bookyear1913
