The Interest in our Towns. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CHRIST CHURCH. 



The Priory Church from the Castle Keep. 



I HAVE determined to give a chapter to Christchurch, not 

 because it contains more than many another town, but because 

 it is a fair representative of the generality of small English 

 boroughs. There is not a town in England, dating from even the 

 Middle Ages, which is not full of interest peculiarly its own, and 

 which does not possess memorials of the past which no other place 

 can show. It has been proposed, by a no mean authority, to 

 teach history by paintings and cartoons. But history is already 



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