Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . f any importance, noris there anything specially worthy of notice in the designs of windows, columns,or capitals. The monuments also, though numerous, are neither remarkable forantiquity nor for design. One, from the quaintness of its inscription, deserves apassing notice. This, written by, and to the memory of, one Captain Gervase Scrope,a Yorkshireman, who died in the year 1705, is too long for quotation, but theauthor describes himself as an old tossed tennis ball, worn out with long Trinity, ] DISAP
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . f any importance, noris there anything specially worthy of notice in the designs of windows, columns,or capitals. The monuments also, though numerous, are neither remarkable forantiquity nor for design. One, from the quaintness of its inscription, deserves apassing notice. This, written by, and to the memory of, one Captain Gervase Scrope,a Yorkshireman, who died in the year 1705, is too long for quotation, but theauthor describes himself as an old tossed tennis ball, worn out with long Trinity, ] DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATIONS. 357 caiiipaig-ns and pains o th gout, and he leaves on record a bitter protest against putting faith in princes ; Four kings in camps he truly serud,And from his loyalty neer ruind, the son slighted,And from the Crown ner of estate, relations, blood,Was too well known, but did no good. The church possesses also a splendid peal of ten bells, which formerly hungin the tower. Whether they will be restored to their former position, or placed. 6T. MICHAEL 8, COVENTRY. in a second toAver which may be erected for then- reception at the west end, isa question which now awaits decision. West of St. Michaels is Trinity Church, certainly better in design. It iscruciform, with a central spire, which was in 1887 thoroughly repaired and in partre-built. In the main the church is Perpendicular, but portions of it remain froman earlier structure, belonging to the thirteenth century. The spire is of later date,for the original one was blown down in the year 1664, and did much injury in itsfall to the body of the church. As at Lichfield, the new spire appears to havebeen in the main a reproduction of the old one, so tliat the general effect is good,and tlie loss was to a great extent repaired. Trinity Church was restored somethirty years since by Sir G. G. Scott, when the bells—with a view to safety—Avere removed to a wooden campanile, built
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