 ... unworthily, though certainly not fully, carried out. In 1753, when the interest of the church had slept for two hundred years, William Hanbury, then twenty-five years of age, was instituted on his own petition, to the rectory of Church Langton. This...  Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents - Page 106by William George Dimock Fletcher - 1887 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society - 1874 - 524 pages
...petition, to the rectory of Church Langton. This singular man was an antiquarian, an architecturist, an ecclesiologist, a campanologist, an ardent lover...with the spirit of any one of these was a curiosity. I am not afraid to say that he anticipated in his own person much of the study, and even of the work... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Leicestershire (England) - 1884 - 326 pages
...instituted to the rectory of Church Langton. This singular man was an antiquarian, an architecturist, an ecclesiologist, a campanologist, an ardent lover...with the spirit of any one of these was a curiosity. . . . His first thought in coming to his cure was to decorate his church. " His plans included, in... | |
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