Tuesday, 25 October 2022

The Village of Pusey

 

From the "Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey"

"Pusey and its estate had considerable effect upon the young Edward Bouverie-Pusey. Geoffrey Faber in his Oxford Apostles wrote of the Georgian house ''. . . standing where manor house had followed manor-house for a thousand years, looking over water and trees and the miles of Pusey land to the unchanging outline of the downs, house and church and tiny village keeping company together as they had done for centuries - all this spoke to the boy of a permanent, immutable yet gracious and living order, the soul of which was the living mystery of a religion once and for ever revealed. Pusey today, perhaps even more, exudes this feeling''. 


See also in the : Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, http://anglicanhistory.org/pusey/liddon/1.1.html

"There was not much society at Pusey...... Of this limited society, however, the children naturally saw little in their early years: they made their first acquaintance with the world when they went to school".


All Saints Church, Pusey

Pusey Gardens 

Pusey Estate: View Towards the Downs

Home Farm House, Pusey. Betterton Family Lived Here 1956-1970

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
                     T.S.Eliot - Little Gidding