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PREFACE.
The kind reception accorded to the
publication of the " Beauty and Interest
of Wirral " has led me to believe that the
present little manual, dealing with the
particular beauty and interest of the old
Parish Churches in the Peninsula, may
supply a further want and prove to be a
useful companion volume to the first. As
Francis Bond says in one of his works,
"
This book should be pleasant to read,
for it has been pleasant to write." It
grew, in fact, out of a perusal of his
wonderful series on our English churches,
for it seemed to me that one might well
attempt to do on a small scale for Wirral
what he has done so magnificently for our
whole country ; and T was the more emboldened
to make the attempt because, in
all his writings, there is only one brief
reference to Wirral. The soil therefore
was almost virgin.
At the end of each chapter in the pre-
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