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The arts in early England (1903)

Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 160

An illustration from The arts in early England, 1903, leaf 160
reflects that some thirtygenerations of the kindred stock have come and gone since thefirst Christian fabric cast its shadow on the grassy enclosure,and that the life of each of these was closely associated withthe church path and precinct and porch, with the benches,the altar, the shrine, the… … U THE VILLAGE CHURCH 115 the annals of court and camp—but of the general mass of thepeople in their domestic and social surroundings, is written onthese homely monuments. As we read the story of thestructure and its surroundings, we follow backwards a longseries of changes through which they have…

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