. The Saturday magazine . isited this county, that, inDr. Clarkes able book on Climate, it is classed asbeing, next to Yorkshire, the most healthy part ofthe kingdom, from the purity of its air and the pre-dominance of high ground. But we were rather togive some account of Coleby than to defend thecounty from misconstruction. The sketch which weare enabled to give will speak for itself, and the porchand the font will show that it contains very beautifulspecimens of the Saxon as well as of the Gothic three lancet windows in the chancel are a sin-gular featm-e in this church. The rich
. The Saturday magazine . isited this county, that, inDr. Clarkes able book on Climate, it is classed asbeing, next to Yorkshire, the most healthy part ofthe kingdom, from the purity of its air and the pre-dominance of high ground. But we were rather togive some account of Coleby than to defend thecounty from misconstruction. The sketch which weare enabled to give will speak for itself, and the porchand the font will show that it contains very beautifulspecimens of the Saxon as well as of the Gothic three lancet windows in the chancel are a sin-gular featm-e in this church. The rich and beautifulGothic spire, including the upper part of the tower,with its light pinnacles and flying buttresses, are evi-dently the work of a later age than the plain Saxontower which they crown. Indeed, an attentive ob-server may easily trace the whole outline of the oldtower and nave. These may be compared to an un-wieldy chrysedis, and the taste of a succeeding gene-ration brought the butterfly to light. The aisles re-. PORCH OF COLEBY CHURCH 1833. THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. 117 presen the wings, the pinnacles and spire may standfor the antennaj or horns of the beautiful insect. Weregret that we have no accounts of the time, orthe different stages of this metamorphosis. An exa-mination of the parish Register, which goes back fornear three hundred years, furnishes no memorandaof any interest, except the following :— J. Rodgers, of Coleby, was chosen by the inhabitantsand householders of the said towne, to bee their ParishRegister; and was sworne before William Lister, Esq. oneof the Justices of the Peace for the Parts and Countie ofKesteven, Oct. 30, 1657. But even those days of civil strife and trouble, donot seem to have disturbed the peace of this quietvillage : there is nothing to mark any breach in theregular routine of baptisms, marriages, and burials,through the whole course of the civil war. If bonesand ashes could be taught to speak, we might indeedbe able to give a li
Size: 1656px × 1509px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookcentury1800, bookidsaturdaymagazine02soci, bookyear1832
