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She at once diverged to the right, presently found a low fence, which she clambered over, and again found a footpath which led to a stile. Crossing that, she could see the footpath now led directly to the Priory, now a grim and austere looking pile in the suddenly dejected landscape, and that it was probably used only by the servants and farmers.
Samuel Johnson Coventry Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom Belvoir Castle Charnwood Forest Groby and Bradgate Elizabeth Widvile and Lady Jane Grey Ulverscroft Priory Grace Dieu Abbey Ashby de la Zouche Langley Priory Leicester Abbey and Castle Bosworth Field Edgehill Naseby The Land of Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon Warwick Kenilworth Birmingham Boulton and Watt Fotheringhay Castle Holmby House Bedford Castle John Bunyan Woburn Abbey and the Russells Stowe Whaddon Hall Great Hampden Creslow House.
He went, as he told Emma, to seek for some continental convent, where perhaps he might be received as a boarder, and glean hints for the Priory. Ordinary minds believed that his creditors being suspicious of the delay of his marriage with the heiress, had contributed to this resolution.
In September, Chicot received the following letter, dated from the Priory of Beaume: "DEAR M. CHICOT The air is soft in this place, and the vintage promises to be good this year. They say that the king, whose life I saved, still grieves much.
Its sole attraction consists in a few fragments of a once considerable Carthusian priory. About 1/2 m. N. of the village, in the corner of a field near the main road, is what looks like a low gabled church tower, with a small E.E. chancel and some other out-buildings.
We left the priory by the western postern and went up the Rue des Trois Piliers. Hilaire and the town of Poitiers. They are set in the city wall, a few yards apart, and the statue on the first pillar is that of the Emperor Gallienus.
On the first convenient day, Lord Martindale sent Violet to call at Rickworth Priory, a visit which she was the more desirous of making, as Emma's correspondence, after languishing for awhile, had ceased, excepting that she sent a fresh allegory of Miss Marstone's to Johnnie on each birthday; and the Brandons having given up coming to London for the season, she scarcely knew anything about them, excepting through Theodora, who reported that they retired more and more from society, and that Miss Marstone was much with them.
It is now carefully preserved and, I have heard it suggested that it might some day be rebuilt to meet the spiritual needs of its neighbourhood. "We pass now to the most stately and beautiful object in this neighbourhood. I mean the tower of Ranton Priory Church. It is always known here as Ranton Abbey. But it has no right to the title.
A personage quite as interesting, though not as famous, as Cuthbert or Guthlac, is St. Godric; the hermit around whose cell rose the Priory of Finchale. In a loop of the river Wear, near Durham, there settled in the days of Bishop Flambard, between 1099 and 1128, a man whose parentage and history was for many years unknown to the good folks of the neighbourhood.
The old chancel at Church Norton contains a battered tomb to John Lewes and his wife . Near-by is a mediaeval rectory, once a priory, dating from the fourteenth century, very quaint and picturesque. We now follow the line of the light railway. At Sidlesham, the first halt, is a restored Early English church containing a fine old chest.
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