The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-11-04


are disclosed Along either side Of these are
tall timber piles aud stagIngs In every circun.
stance Of age or newDess, with lofty wharvcs and
warehouses of antique modern appearance.
The best residential suburb OF Boston s Shir-
beck. which indeed claims 10 be older than Boston
itself. for while the town Is not mentioned In
Domesday Book Shirbeck finds place In It's
pages
Always seaport and thriving on trade with
Russia. with Sweden and Norway and the Battle
as well as on It's fisheries. Boston has In most OF
Its streets and queer old-world lanes II tang OF
the sea. Yet the visitor viii nothing OF the
ocean In Boston town unless he cares 20 ascend
the lofty tower of the parish church. whose Ian
tern stage built for the purpose not only of
landmark when roads existed and when
the fcns largely overspread the land, but also
ms u beacon for mariners out at aud ascending
the winding river channel II has been stated
that Boston steeplc be seen 40 miles out ut
sea; and certainly IL Is easily visible 20 miles
away on the land. Roads leading from the town
TO seashore are few. and the shore itself when
reached Is not attractive.
Why II Has a Foreign Air
The eurIously foreign air OF Boston. like that
OF Kings Lynn is derived from Its trade with
foreign parts and from the merchants Of other
countries who once had houses here In the times
OF It's great commercial prosperity. For Boston
at time second only 10 London az u port.
That was In the opening years of the Thirteenth
century, WINE London ana Other ports nave de-
seloped. Boston has simply stood stu.
There was. however. a period when "decayed"
might well have been applied here. II was, curl
ousiy enough exactly at the time when the PHI
grim Fathers sought to leave these shores for In
1907 the corporation petioned that their borough
might be put among the decayed towns" The
object was to escape paying subsidies. but the
decay there. The of decline the
gradual choking up by mud OF the winding river
channel Modern docks. cut about 1852 below
Shirbeck, have. together with railways, brought
back prosperity: and there seems no reason to
doubt but that In the future there will be
siderable expansion.
Sea borne trade has been shifted below the town
except for quite small vessels. II Is a pity to
observe many OF those old warehouses empty.
and soon, no doubt, TO be disnantied for they
have architectural distinction which the mod.
wholly lack Looking AZ them, we see
another reason apart from their situation. why
they are no longer desirable. They are buildings
with the small windows that make dark interiors.
The modern warehouses have little wall space
and much window. Secular architecture has, In
fact. followed on exactly the same lines ecce-
siasticai. for Romanesque developed into Gothic
from few and tiny Norman windows into the vast
and iightsome fenesration OF the sixteenth cen.
fury.
We find this well exemplhed In the case OF the
great church OF Boston that OF ST. Botoiphs.
whose dedication gave the town Its name. The
existing church Is largely OF the decorated and
perpendicular periods OF the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth centuries, when windows had already at.
istned great size.
~ Boston Church and the "stunp"
Boston church entirely dominates the town as
The lofty steeple does the surrounding country
II Is sAd 10 be the largest parish church In Eng
land" There are several claimants to this dig
nifty ST. MchaelS. Coventry Is, however the
largest: but ~. Botolph's interior certainly con-
veys the Impression of greater size. II il an
amazingly ample and dignlned interior There
are ancient memorial brasses n wonderful series
OF sculptured "miserere" seats. beautiful ia
cobean pulpit Of ld2o far more restrained In style
than commonly e. be met with of that period,
and efiigy II the lady Dame Margaret Tllney
who placed e. on the foundations OF the great
tower. excavated Ia 1900
This tower ~ Boston church So noble SO re.
markahlc. known In endearing fashion to all Lin.
coinshire folk az Boston stump" from Its slngu.
larry bluued .1:line. rises IA height OF 2Ss feet
IL seems astounding that the builder should have
had the confidence 10 raise lofty aud heavy II
building Hpon the banks Of a muddy river chan.
mel. only some 30 feet from It's shore; but the
foundations were carried down 30 feet to u stone
bed five feet below the level OF the river bottom
For aO years the work Of building the tower WAS
stsyed, and then recommended, being finished
without the topmost octagonal stage. which
added al later period especially to exhibit n
ilgh, for sailors making the haven
The south chapel. used In the Eighteenth
tury and until comparatively recent years as
FIRE engine house was restored by citizens Of BIOS.
ton Ia America in honor of Rev John Cotton.
who resigned his post vicar IN 1888 and accom-
panied by many az Bostons most prominent men,
sailed In the Grifhn for 4hs newer Boston. 1t is
now khswn Cotton chapel.
Selling Their Antiquities
Boston has never been IA good warden OF her
historic buildings and picturesque corners md
very much has been destroyed. The Gulldhau ia
a long. low building Of two floors. Bull, In red
brick IN the Fifteenth century. II WIS evidently
originally OF religious character from the eren,
ehurch-like window sim containing some stained
glass once representing the twelve apostles The
two narrow cells survvals OF several mad.
IN 1862 By order Of the town council They ar.
bnt seven feet long and high and about Ave feet
ssrox2 staircase led TO the courtroom
- Nhen the sessionshouse was built ia
49, these cells were dsused and the staircase