Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . le clerestory above, with its square open-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 fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century, render it hard 396 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [St. Benets, Camkridge. to tear ourselves away from
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . le clerestory above, with its square open-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 fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century, render it hard 396 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [St. Benets, Camkridge. 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 part of hischildhood, is entirely in keeping with church and village. Between it and Stamford are the stately woods of Burgh-ley, and all the country round is plea-sant to the wayfarer. The tower of Chuich —. ST MRHAElV 0\1-0KD familiarly called St Bo-nets—at Cambridge is, the whole, in good preservation. It consists of three stages, con- earls barton. structed of rude stonework, originally covered by rough-cast, with long and short work at the corners. The lowest storey,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 appearance. On either side, and not rangingwith the above, are two simple round-headed windows, and diagonally andirregularly above eac
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