 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 pages
...the same time.] In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable 5 but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the parish, reputed to have died virgins,1 and recollect to have seen the clerk's wife cutting, in white paper, the resemblances of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 pages
...images and altars. In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable ; but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the...resemblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted in knots and roses, to decorate these memorials of chastity. In the church of Faringdon, which is the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 pages
...same time.] In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable; but I remember when its beams were hong with garlands in honour of young women of the parish, reputed to have died virgins,1 and recollect to have seen the clerk's wife cutting1, in white paper, the resemblances of... | |
 | 1895 - 270 pages
...images and altars. In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable ; but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the...wife cutting, in white paper, the resemblances of SELBORNE CHURCH. 199 gloves, and ribbons to be twisted in knots and roses, to decorate these memorials... | |
 | William Thorn Warren - 1902 - 168 pages
...when the beams of this Church were hung with Garlands in honour of young women of the parish reported to have died Virgins ; and recollect to have seen the Clerk's wife cutting, in white paper, the resemblance of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted into knots and roses, to decorate these memorials... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1904 - 540 pages
...the resemblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted in knots and roses, to decorate these memorial* of chastity. In the church of Faringdon, which is...next parish, many garlands of this sort still remain. The north aisle is narrow and low, with a sloping ceiling, reaching within eight or nine feet of the... | |
 | Herbert Winckworth Tompkins - 1905 - 110 pages
...the middle aisle,''' he writes, " there is nothing remarkable ; but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the...and roses, to decorate these memorials of chastity." He relates, too, that the north aisle had at one time a flat roof covered with lead ; but a churchwarden,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 pages
...images and altars. In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable : but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the...next parish, many garlands of this sort still remain. The north aisle is narrow and low, with a sloping ceiling, reaching within eight or nine feet of the... | |
 | D. H. Moutray Read - 1908 - 478 pages
...Gilbert White in his Antiquities recalls how in Selborne church he could— remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the...resemblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted in knots and roses, to decorate these memorials of charity. In the Church of Farringdon, which is the... | |
 | D. H. Moutray Read - 1908 - 492 pages
...his Antiquities recalls how in .Selborne church he could — • remember when its beams were bung with garlands in honour of young women of the parish,...resemblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted in knots and roses, to decorate these memorials of charity. In the Church of Farringdon, which is the... | |
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In the middle aisle there is nothing remarkable : but I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the parish, reputed to have died virgins ; and recollect to have seen the clerk's wife cutting, in white paper, the resemblances... 
