The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . 1 N V .1 YAVERLAND CHURCH, ISLE OF rriGHT, HAMPSHIRE, The parish of Yaverland is very small, containing aboutone hundred inhabitants, only a few cottages, and the manor-house, which was formerly the residence of the Russels ; now occupies it, and the manor-farm. The littleparish church has a well-preserred semicircular arch of Nor-man architecture, which is ornamented with various mould-ings, and particu
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . 1 N V .1 YAVERLAND CHURCH, ISLE OF rriGHT, HAMPSHIRE, The parish of Yaverland is very small, containing aboutone hundred inhabitants, only a few cottages, and the manor-house, which was formerly the residence of the Russels ; now occupies it, and the manor-farm. The littleparish church has a well-preserred semicircular arch of Nor-man architecture, which is ornamented with various mould-ings, and particularly one, deeply indented with a long,broad, and beautiful fluting. Close to Yaverland is Bembridge Down, leading to CulverCliflFs, the ride to which from Ryde, is perhaps one of thegrandest in the whole island. The approach to Culver Cliffs is of that nature that fewpeople will venture to look down on their perpendicular sides ;but the attention is particularly excited by the HermitsHole, at their west end; it penetrates into the rock abouttwenty feet. At a distance of about thirty feet from thesummit of the Cliffs, the path which leads to it from the topis steep, narrow, an
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