. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . erestory above, with its square oi^en-ings and trefoil lights ; the porch, with its high-pitched stone roof; the stonestaircase and groining, inserted into the old Saxon tower at the end of thetwelfth century, when the bell-chamber and low spire were added; the chapels andtheir tombs; with all the structural alterations made in the church from thebeginning of the fomteenth to the end of the fifteenth century, render it hard 890 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [St. Benets, Camhridob. to tear ourselves away from so
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . erestory above, with its square oi^en-ings and trefoil lights ; the porch, with its high-pitched stone roof; the stonestaircase and groining, inserted into the old Saxon tower at the end of thetwelfth century, when the bell-chamber and low spire were added; the chapels andtheir tombs; with all the structural alterations made in the church from thebeginning of the fomteenth to the end of the fifteenth century, render it hard 890 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [St. Benets, Camhridob. to tear ourselves away from so interesting a building, which is, moreover, inexcellent order, and has not been too much restored. The village, too, is worthyof the church. The stone-built houses—not a few of them ancient—are neatand picturesque. The rectory, where Charles Kingsley passed a i)art of hischildhood, is entirely in keej^ing with church and village. ]3etween it and Stamford are the stately woods of Burgh-ley, and all the country round is j)lea- sant to the wayfarer. The tower of Church —. BARNACK, EAULS BARTON. The lowest storey, ST. Michaels, oxford. familiarly called St. Bo-nets—at Cambridge is,on the whole, in good preservation. It consists of three stages, con-structed of rude stonework, originally coveredby rough-cast, with long and short work at the corners,which takes up about half the building, has been much knocked about, a doorand windows having been pierced at a much later period; the next storey iswithout any windows ; the third has an abundance. A description of one facewill suffice for all. In the centre, resting on a string-course, is a window oftwo lights, the semicircular heads of which are cut out of one block of stone;these are separated by a single lathe-turned column. This, as the walls arethick, has a curiously insufficient apj^earance. On either side, and not rangingwith the above, are two simple round-headed windows, and diagonally andUTegularly above
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