The lover of ecclesiastical architecture will, equally as the investigator of ancient customs, 27. Ecclesiastical Edifices, St. Mary Overie.manorial residences, or castellated fortresses, find in Surrey ample scope for his observation. Some of its conventual and sacred edifices vie with any in the kingdom for beauty and renown:—The Church of St. Mary Overie, rich in its lingering Norman relics, and in
" names,
Which unto time bequeath a name,"—
the resting place of the poets Gower, Fletcher, Massinger,—with the fading page of its early priory, and singular crypt,—placed in a neighbourhood, wherein each step we take is on past honoured 28. Croydon.dust; Croydon, "the mitred, as I may call it, irradiated not by the titles only, but by the charitable deeds and pious munificence of Chicheley, 29. GuildfordGrindall, Shelden, and Whitgift; Guildford, whose church, caverns, castle, hospital, demand each a separate narrative replete with 30. Palaces and Manorial houses.archival interest: palaces, abbeys, and manorial residences, crowd upon our survey, until
"our hearts run o'er
"With silent worship of the great of old."
A host of associations awake at the mere enumeration of such residences as Beddington, Nonsuch, Lambeth, Loseley, Sutton, Sheen, fraught with the memory of the
"Dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who rule
Our spirits from their urns!"
