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was subsequently squared. From about the middle of the 

 twelfth century apses were of very rare occurrence in England, 

 and many of those that existed seem, like Melbourne, to have 

 been squared. Mr. Bond has not overlooked the original 

 apse terminations of the transepts of this church, for they 

 are mentioned in another place. In the larger Romanesque 

 churches both of Normandy and England two western towers 



Melliourne. Interior iiom East. 



were common. Among instances of this Melbourne is 

 enumerated, but these small towers have lost much of their 

 original appearance through the addition, in 1862, of lofty 

 pyramidal slated roofs. In another part of this exhaustive 

 volume, where the narthex, or western, transept of churches 

 is under discussion, Melbourne again comes to the front. 

 Attention is drawn to the nave aisles ending -at the west in 



