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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... ings of the people; but there is still room for ever so much amendment; and we hope the day is not very far off when buildings commodious, safe to live in, and harmonising with the laws of civilisation, will be erected. An hour's walk from the starting point at Wray Green brought us to the village of Weeton. It is a very silent, serenely-set, quietly quaint-looking place. A broad road runs through it; the houses, whitewashed and coloured in a most chiaro-scuro style, and thatched in many instances, stand considerably back, as if determined to give it a wide berth, and let it go past unmolested. Some of the dwellings are very diminutive. We saw a man standing close to the side of one, with his hat off; he was looking out of the doorway; his head touched the thatched eaves; and he came so even therewith, and had such a rough lot of material on his head, that we couldn't tell where the thatch ended and the hair began. Opposite the village inn there is a large circular pedestal, recently renovated, upon which stands the fluted column of an old sun dial. Weeton (associated, for parochial purposes, with Preese) is a venerable spot. It is mentioned as Widetun in Domesday Book, and there can be no doubt it was in existence, in some shape, long anterior to the compilation of that work. Roman antiquities have been found at Weeton; there are, or were up to a recent period, traces in it of an old Roman road, which is supposed to have run from Kirkham to the Wyre. At Weeton Lane Heads there is a British cairn, out of which several urns have been dug. Weeton--this is another proof of its antiquity--is likewise "associated with the oldest ghost of the Fylde country--the hairy ghost, the Celtic equivalent of the ancient satyr." At Weeton, as in many...

Forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of the state. Nearly three hundred stunning color photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The general satisfaction given by the following sketches when originally printed in the Preston Chronicle, combined with a desire, largely expressed, to see them republished, in book form, is the principal excuse offered for the appearance of this volume. Into the various descriptions of churches, chapels, priests, parsons, congregations, &c., which it contains, a lively spirit, which may be objectionable to the phlegmatic, the sad-faced, and the puritanical, has been thrown. But the author, who can see no reason why a "man whose blood is warm within" should "sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster," on any occasion, has a large respect for cheerfulness, and has endeavoured to make palatable, by a little genial humour, what would otherwise have been a heavy enumeration of dry facts. Those who don't care for the gay will find in these sketches the grave; those who prefer vivacity to seriousness will meet with what they want; those who appreciate all will discover each. The solemn are supplied with facts; the facetious with humour; the analytical with criticism. The work embodies a general history of each place of worship in Preston - fuller and more reliable than any yet published; and for reference it will be found valuable, whilst for general reading it will be instructive. The author has done his best to be candid and impartial.