rowlstone

Updated: May 21, 2025

Peter at Rowlstone, where the ornamental representations of cocks and apostolic figures all have their heads downward, in memory of the position in which St. Peter was crucified. Here also, on the edge of the Black Mountains, is Oldcastle, whose ruins recall its owner, Sir John "of that ilk," the martyr who was sentenced in 1417 to be taken from the Tower of London to St.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel