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. 1792 Excerpt: ... Deeps, or an arm of the sea in Lincolnshire, distance above sixty miles, nearly N. E. when the air is free from vapours, and the fun in a proper direction: the most favourable time is about 3 o'clock P. M. It is well worth the notice of an antiquarian, that this copper ball (together with a fine toned bell) was ...
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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. 1792 Excerpt: ... Deeps, or an arm of the sea in Lincolnshire, distance above sixty miles, nearly N. E. when the air is free from vapours, and the fun in a proper direction: the most favourable time is about 3 o'clock P. M. It is well worth the notice of an antiquarian, that this copper ball (together with a fine toned bell) was brought by Sir Gyles Allington from Boulogne, when that place was taken by the English, in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, Anno. Dom. 1544, and was placed upon the cupola of his house at Horseheath in Cambridgeshire, which he built; and was fold, amongst the rest of the materials, when that once noble feat was dismantled. Mr. Ashby paid only for its weight, as old copper, altho' the metal was as perfectly free from decay as when first manufactured; probably owing to the coats of gilding and painting. G a The: The tower, furnished with a clock (which strikes the hours upon the tenor bell, and may be heard at a considerable distance, but which has no dial-plate) is 18 feet 6 inches long, and 15 feet 6 inches in breadth, and is thought by all architects, who have noticed it, not to be competent to bear a compleat spire of stone. The nave of the church is 55 feet 6 inches long, and 21 feet 10 inches broad. The north ile is in breadth 10 feet 9 inches. South ile 7 feet 11 inches. The breadth of the whole 40 feet 6 5 inches. The height 34 feet 6 inches within, and the nave rises above the iles 15 feet. There are evident marks of a rood loft still remaining, a pillar having been cut away to admit the staircase. The The seating of the church is regular, and in the old fashion, at right angles from north to south, except three pews at the east end belonging to the mansionhouses of the present proprietors. The feat belonging to the Vicarage, is the first ...
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