13. When we remember that the churchyards of the old churches had been used as burial-places in many cases since the early days of Christianity, and even before that, we can easily grasp the fact that the earth had been used over and over again for burials. About the middle of the nineteenth century the nation came to the conclusion that burials in churches and crowded town churchyards should no longer be allowed. The practice was dangerous to the living. So =cemeteries= were opened in districts away from the towns and homes of the people. Towns have grown so fast that many of these cemeteries are now surrounded by houses, and are the centres of big populations. 14. About the year 1840 interest began to be taken in the old English styles of building, and a taste for =Gothic architecture= arose again. Since that time places of worship of all descriptions have for the most part been built in some sort of Gothic. When you read that such and such a church or building is in the fourteenth or fifteenth century style, you must understand that it is not a copy of a church built in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, but that its window-heads, doorways, arches, and fittings are _in the style_ of the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Most of these modern buildings are of brick, only faced or dressed with stone. It is pretty safe to say that there is no old church standing which was built entirely in the fourteenth century, and has remained unaltered from that day to this. 15. In our towns almost every tower and spire which we see is a modern building, though the _styles_ may vary from Norman to Perpendicular and seventeenth century. Modern buildings, churches, halls, public offices, and private houses are mostly imitations of the work of past ages. There is no nineteenth-century style of English architecture. Some day, perhaps, England may develop a new style of architecture, such as the world has never yet seen, but at the present time we can only copy and adapt the work of those who have gone before us. =Summary.=--_Pews_ came much into use in churches after the Reformation, and the sides were very high. In the seventeenth century very few new churches were built, but many rings of bells were placed in the towers. The _monuments_ became tablets, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, &c. The oldest _tombstones_ in churchyards are not earlier than 1660. In Wren's churches there is much fine woodwork. In the eighteenth century the new churches built were oblong rooms, fitted up with galleries on three sides, having _high pews and a tall pulpit_. Corpses were buried in _vaults_ under these churches and chapels, but by the middle of the nineteenth century burials in town churches and churchyards came to an end.