. AFTER THE RENAISSANCE. Photograph \ Iby the A uthor Billesley, Warwickshire. A church buiU entirely in the Georgian era. xA^Itars and altar-slabs* 91 north sides respectively. A similar arrangementexisted at Deerhurst, near Tewkesbury, and does sostill at Lyddington, in Rutland, while the centralposition has been reverted to in one modern Londonchurch. Professor Beresford Pites building, ChristChurch, Brixton Road. In England altars were taken down about 1550,replaced in the reign of Mary, to be again removedin that of Elizabeth. S
. AFTER THE RENAISSANCE. Photograph \ Iby the A uthor Billesley, Warwickshire. A church buiU entirely in the Georgian era. xA^Itars and altar-slabs* 91 north sides respectively. A similar arrangementexisted at Deerhurst, near Tewkesbury, and does sostill at Lyddington, in Rutland, while the centralposition has been reverted to in one modern Londonchurch. Professor Beresford Pites building, ChristChurch, Brixton Road. In England altars were taken down about 1550,replaced in the reign of Mary, to be again removedin that of Elizabeth. So complete was their de-struction on the last occasion, and in the devas-tations of the Puritans, that very few remain in altar-slabs, however, are preservedamong other places at Arundel Church and West-ham, Sussex ; and in the ruined Church of , at Ripon. The little chapels attached tohospitals or almshouses at Stamford, Glastonbury,Sahsbury, and several other places have also re-tained their old altar-slabs. In the little churchat Corton, near Upwey,
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