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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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cending in the western skies.They quit the prospect with unsated eyes;Then stop awhile at Drayton in the way,Eat a plumb cake, or sip a cup of tea. Drayton lay on the homeward road of those nymphs andswains, who had come over from Baiibury, but its plumb cake and fragrant tay must be left untasted, for I do not passthrough it on my way to Hanwell, whither I am now bound. Iclimb the hill to the picturesque village of Horley, whose greyweather-beaten cottages cluster round its fine unrestored church.As you enter the church by the south door you are confrontedby a large fresco of St. Christopher on the wall of the northaisle. The saint, as usual, is represented as carrying the infantChrist upon his shoulders, to whom he says : What art thou, and art so yynge ?Bar I never so hevy a thynge, and the answer is : Vey, I be hevy, no wunther nys.For I am the Kynge of bl)s. These figures of St. Christopher were always large, and insituations where they might be easily seen, for it was an ancient
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llanuiell Castle CH. IV HANWELL CASTLE 91 belief, that whosoever had seen the figure would not die thatday any sudden or accidental death.^ Hanwell lies across the valley to the west and a bend to theright after entering the village brings us face to face with amassive tower of brick ^\^th stone quoins, and large stone-muUioned windows, now blocked up. It reminds us of thealmost contemporary work at Hampton Court, or of some ofthe college gate-houses at Cambridge. This tower is the solesurviving one of four which stood at each corner of the mansion,for three centuries the seat of the Cope family. It was built byWilliam Cope, cofferer of the household to Henry theSeventh, who died in 1513, and was buried at Banbury: histomb of-black marble shared the fate of that church in 1790,and after lying there for 277 years his body was again exposedto the light, but immediately crumbled to dust. This wasindeed an age in which the spirit of destruction rampedunchecked in this neighbourhood: some

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