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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: restored; but the church tower, standing apart and, like the towers of Blyth, Shrewsbury, and Christchurch, of later date than the main building, remains the same as when Bunyan leaned against its doorway and delighted to ring the bells in the chamber overhead. The massive buttresses, the time- West View Of Elstow Churcu. worn oaken door, the roughly paved floor trodden with the hob-nailed boots of generations of ringers, the very bells themselves are unchanged by the two hundred years which have come and gone since he was there. Passing through the church, or round it, on the south side we come upon a park-like meadow, with its handsome trees and colony of rooks, once part of the monastic enclosure; upon the delightful little chamber, with its groined roof and central pillar of Purbeck marble, sometimes, though erroneously, called the chapter house, sometimes the nuns' choir, but the actual use of which, standing as it does west of the church, it is not so easy to determine. We come also upon the fish ponds of the abbey, now choked with weeds, and upon the old mansion of the Hillersdons, whose stately doorway, and ruined walls, and mullioned windows strong shoots of ivy have covered with a mantle of green. Elstow, or Helenstow, the stow or stockaded place of St. Helen, a- name cognate to such forms as Bridestow and Mor- wenstow, was so called because of the dedication of the old Saxon church to Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great. In 1078 there was founded in the place, by Judith, the niece of the Conqueror, a Benedictine nunnery, which remained the central feature of Elstow life till the surrender of the monasteries at the Reformation. In 1553 a grant was made by the Crown to Sir Humphrey Radcliffe, of the whole demesne and site of the late Monastery ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217496636 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217496636 |
| Weight | 1.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 In |
| List Price | $27.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 420 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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