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Remarks on English churches and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral memorials subservient to pious and Christian uses (1843)

Markland, J. H. (James Heywood), 1788-1864 · Oxford : J.H. Parker · leaf 31

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cy of our Puritan forefathers. Theseinclosures, sometimes small in themselves, embody,alas! too much of pride, exclusiveness, and sloth. b Mr. Streatfeild, speaking of the glass in Hawkhurst Church, Kent,says that an examination of it cost him some labour, for its constitutedguardians had found the… … o- o AND ON SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS. 5 They become still more unsightly, from being occa-sionally dislocated when burials are improperly per-mitted to take place beneath them. The readingand clerks desks, often of gigantic size and ofpaltry materials, obscure the chancel, and form astriking contrast…

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