The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930, Quinton, A.R · London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 133
e drawing was built in the thirteenth century, with subsequentadditions. The tower is a fine fifteenth-century structure of thePerpendicular style, with battlements and stair turret. Withinthe church there are the remains of a rood screen. Biddenden and its maids and cakes have drawn us away… … LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND forgotten in the construction of our chimneys. We must have alightning-conductor, not a vain thing with wires and glass, buta goodly plant, the herb house-leek. If you plant this on yourchimney-stack or roof you can defy the lightning—at least, if youhave faith, the simple…
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