Highways and byways in Surrey . .tu f m^^^ St. Catherine s Chapel^ Guildford. is a wide smooth path of the finest down grass, cropped close byrabbits, with which all this breezy hill must be alive by at the top the path breaks into sand, which must havetested the less elastic of the travellers to the shrine prettyseverely, but the sand breaks again into an open plateau of asfine grass as the path below. On this plateau stands the littlechurch, alone in the sun and wind. 90 A QUIET CHURCHYARD chap. Sixty years ago St. Marthas was a ruin ; as unhappy a Httlebuilding as St. Catherine
Highways and byways in Surrey . .tu f m^^^ St. Catherine s Chapel^ Guildford. is a wide smooth path of the finest down grass, cropped close byrabbits, with which all this breezy hill must be alive by at the top the path breaks into sand, which must havetested the less elastic of the travellers to the shrine prettyseverely, but the sand breaks again into an open plateau of asfine grass as the path below. On this plateau stands the littlechurch, alone in the sun and wind. 90 A QUIET CHURCHYARD chap. Sixty years ago St. Marthas was a ruin ; as unhappy a Httlebuilding as St. Catherines on the hill beyond the Wey. It wasrestored in 1848, and has taken out of the past a quiet andserenity that set it in the old years, in tranquil sunshine, in thepeace of English Sundays. AH the winds blow about it; it isalone in its acre of smooth down grass ; within its churchyardwall are the graves of country labourers and their children,lowly mounds hardly seen, without the memory of a name, atone with the purpose of the ea
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