Shepperton Church

Shepperton Church,Amos Barton's church. "Shepperton Church was a very different-looking building five-andtwenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes! . . . I recall with a fond sadness Shepperton Church as it was in the old days, with its outer coat of rough stucco, its red-tiled roof, its heterogeneous windows patched with desultory bits of painted glass, and its little flight of steps with their wooden rail running up the outer wall, and leading to the schoolchildren's gallery." The well-known original of Shepperton Church is the Church at Chilvers Coton, where George Eliot was baptised and which she attended as a child. (See Cross, George Eliot's Life, vol. 1, p. 2.)

<em>The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton</em>

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