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CHAPTER II.<br />

<strong>THE</strong> ARCHITECTURE OF<br />

WIRRAL <strong>OLD</strong> CHURCHES.<br />

" The architect<br />

Built his great heart into these sculptured<br />

stones,<br />

And ivith him toiled his children, and<br />

their lives<br />

Were builded,<br />

walls<br />

with his own, into these<br />

As offerings unto God."<br />

Longfellow.<br />

ANYONE who visits a great cathedral<br />

church is aware that the building in<br />

which he stands is assigned to different<br />

periods in history, and that archaeologists,<br />

and others versed in matters ecclesiastical,<br />

can determine the period to which any<br />

part of the building belongs by an examination<br />

of its architectural style. The nave,<br />

for example, may be Norman ;<br />

25<br />

the chan-

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