Dead & Buried
“Mark’s Church, at the corner of Collier and Chestnut, was officially known as St. Mark’s-in-the-Fields, but everybody in Grantham, including many who had never been inside, called it St. Mark’s-by-the-Greens from the fact that it overlooked the first tee and the last green of the Grantham Golf Club. It was a lowish, wide-shouldered stone church, built, according to Frank Bushmill, in the tradition of English country churches. There was a square tower with no steeple and a big wooden door that f...itted snugly into a pointed Gothic arch in front. That much I knew on my own.
I was a little surprised to see the church again so soon; I had eaten my lunch practically in its shadow. Light was coming through the stained-glass windows making bright pointed shapes on the ground. I have to admit that churches make me nervous. Even when I was a kid singing in the Kiwanis Music Festival, the hammer-beamed roofs, the regimental flags, the plaques and memorials all made me feel peculiar. It was a different feeling from the one I got at the synagogue at the corner of Church and Calvin.MoreLess
I was a little surprised to see the church again so soon; I had eaten my lunch practically in its shadow. Light was coming through the stained-glass windows making bright pointed shapes on the ground. I have to admit that churches make me nervous. Even when I was a kid singing in the Kiwanis Music Festival, the hammer-beamed roofs, the regimental flags, the plaques and memorials all made me feel peculiar. It was a different feeling from the one I got at the synagogue at the corner of Church and Calvin.MoreLess
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