Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Volume 18 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...a long time I could not understand why, but at last I was gravely informed it was because Esau was a hairy man. Latterly, however, Esau has been supplanted, and Silvanus, the god of woods and gardens, has become a most terrific personage. One of the drivers was heard a short time ago to explain to a tripper, in reply to the question as to whom the statue represented, that it was "Ajax defying his mother-in-law!" As this astonishing attribution seems to have quite satisfied the average excursionist, I suppose we must now accept it as the orthodox explanation. afirtBS PROPOSE to take as the basis of my paper on this Church a portion of the return which I made some years ago to the Rural Dean, and then with your permission to add some remarks on one or two points. The Church consists of chancel, nave, and north and south transepts, forming a Greek-cross, 50 feet long from east to west, and 45 from north to south. The chancel arch is Norman or Romanesque, very plain and massive. The mouldings at the springing of the arch appear to have been removed. It is considered by competent judges to have been built before the Conquest, certainly not later than 1150. In the east face of the wall, just above the head of the arch and equi-distant from the centre, are two so-called "acoustic vases," about which I shall speak later on. There can be no doubt that they were inserted when the wall was built. The north transept belongs to the Early English period, and may probably be dated from 1220 to 1270. In the west wall there is a lancet window, reaching so near to the ground as to suggest the thought that it may have been intended for the same purpose as the ordinary leper windows, especially as there was a leper hospital--St. Leonard's--a few yards beyon...