The wanderings of a pen and pencil . t we saw Ambian wood and fields, now skirted by the Ashby canal andthe lands to the rearward of Henrys position. Shenton is a poor and homely village. The hall (much repaired) remains,and is the principal feature, Avith its projecting bays lying upon an ordinarydomestic facade, and its wall and venerable porch in the front. The groundsat the back towards the river Tweed are open, and of considerable extentand beauty. Colonel Wollaston, the proprietor, was taking his afternoonswalk in the fields when wepresented our cards to his valet,and lest we should brea
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . t we saw Ambian wood and fields, now skirted by the Ashby canal andthe lands to the rearward of Henrys position. Shenton is a poor and homely village. The hall (much repaired) remains,and is the principal feature, Avith its projecting bays lying upon an ordinarydomestic facade, and its wall and venerable porch in the front. The groundsat the back towards the river Tweed are open, and of considerable extentand beauty. Colonel Wollaston, the proprietor, was taking his afternoonswalk in the fields when wepresented our cards to his valet,and lest we should break anold mans custom, we retiredto examine the simple church,upon a rugged terrace of turfnear to the residence. It is arude edifice, the walls of whichand some of the windows areof an early j^eriod. There isa square western tower im-posed upon one of larger area,to which is a plain pointedarch, over a former entrancenow filled up with a privatedoor in the void. There is arickety porch to the south, andin the aisle to which it enters. Shenton Church. SHENTON. 129 a dim window, east and west, through which the most blessed light, from theglad world without, streams down upon the damp quarries, and broken slabsupon the floor, with rays like those which it gathers to wander in dungeonvaults, and in the winter-caverns of the wolf and bear. Oh ! cautious dameof Polesworth Hall, avoid the rheumatics of Shenton church. Upon the wall east of the communion table are two busts of a Wollastonand his lady. He was lord of the manor, and she was Anne daughter ofHumphrey Whitgreave of Great Bridgford in the county of Stafford: hedied in 1666, having survived her thirty-seven years. Upon the tabletbetween the busts is an inscription in the usual style. There are remnantsof old brasses upon the pavement of the chancel. We flung ourselves uponthe floor, to examine them; but with little success. One is to a veryprolific Mr. Everard, who died in 1556; and to another is the verse, in Latin, I know t
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