St Mary's, Buriton

 

Buriton: St Mary

Every evening, working horses came to wade through cooling water; now the pond is just for show - Horses come, horses go. John Bonham-Carter cut the turf to bring a railway through the valley; post-horn waggons ran too slow - Coaches come, coaches go. Edward Gibbon, born and bred beside the church, within the Manor, warned against a status quo - Romans come, Romans go. But old St Mary's, through it all, with ironstone roots declines to fall.

From Photo-verse,
by John Owen (Jo) Smith