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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and purchasedSaperton at the Restoration from the Pooles, who hadheld it since the time of Henry VH. His son, the youngerSir Robert, represented (Cirencester in the Oxford Parliamentof 1681, and was the author of The Ancient and Present Stateof Glocestershire, to which we have referred more than once.He died in 1711, the year before his book was published, andis buried in the south transept of the church; there youmay behold him in effigy reclining in a dignified manner onhis elbow : He left behind him, says his epitaph, LouiseLady Atkyns daughter of Sir George Carteret of Hawns inBedfordshire, his most dear and sorrowful widow, who erectedthis monument to his memory, though he left behind him onemore durable. The ancient and present state of Glostershire.Another m.onument presents the figure of a youthful knight,the eldest son of Sir Henry Poole: Sir Devereux Poole,being but of tender age, was for his worthynes and valoureknighted in France by Henry the 4, the French king, after his
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Snfierton. CH. XIII DANEWAY 329 owiie order, and there ended his dayse and was there buried1590. The church abounds in Jacobean carving, which wasremoved from the manor-house before it was pulled do\vn in1730 by Lord Bathursi, to whom Saperton was sold by theheirs of the last Sir Rob 3rt AtkjTis. All this carved oak givesthe church quite a character of its own, and harmonisesexcellently wnth the style of architecture. At the same time thereis no mistaking its origin. The massive communion table, forexample, has a lower shelf irresistibly suggestive of a side-board, while the classic termini which ornament the benchends and the front of the gallery were plainly designed for avery different scene. But the whole effect is fraught with apeculiar charm which is further enhanced by the strongly builtwaggon roof of the nave, and the exquisite pale green trans-parent glass of the windows, which has only in one instancebeen displaced to make room for the vulgar abomination knownas cathedral gl

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