Views Of The Most Interesting Collegiate And Parochial Churches In Great Britain Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Essex Gloucestershire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Norfolk

Author : John Preston Neale
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266541370
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain, Vol. 2 written by John Preston Neale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain, Vol. 2: Including Screens, Fonts, Monuments, &C Bulwiok, or as it was sometimes spelt Bolewyke, is in the Hundred of Corby, ten miles from Stamford, on the road to Kettering, and is situated in Weldon Deanery. The Church, of which we present a south view, is a very fine specimen of that peculiarity in architecture for which this county is one of the most celebrated in the kingdom. The Tower and stone Spire are models of their kind; simply elegant in their gene rel appearance, they combine the most just proportions with a taste ful distribution Of ornament. Four plain graduated buttresses at the angles support the Tower; its basement, fourteen feet by ten, as high as the body of the Church, is plain; but the lofty story which rises above: is ornamented on each face with two united, and very Elegantly pro portioned pointed windows, filled with tracery in the upper part, and di vided by a transom in the middle; above, is a rich band or fascia filled with quatrefoils, &c., and grotesque heads, forming water-spouts at the angles; the Tower. Is finished with nu' embattled parapet. The Spire, of stone, which rises to a considerable height, is octagonal, pierced with two tier of tabernacled openings, on alternate sides, and is terminated by a vane; the Church standing on an eminence above the village, the spire is a most pleasing object for many miles. The structure consists of a. Body, north and south aisles, and achaucel; its total length is ninety feet six inches; breadth, including the aisles, forty-nine feet six inches. The entrance is by a perch on the south side; the body of the Church is.di. Vided from the chancel by a screen, and, on the south side the altar, is the triple sedilia of stone, and a piscina. Bridges, in his history of this county, mentions the following memorials; but, from alterations, during the various repairs the Church has undergone, some of them no longer exist. In the chancel is a stone to the memory of the Rev. John Nobles, who had been Rector of this parish forty-two years, ob. 1692, at. 69, and, on the east wall, a tablet to the Rev. Charles Nettleton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.