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of facred reliques, &c. after the manners of the Romans and 
Italians *. 
Tue Irith alfo had cripts to their ftone churches, but thefe 
cripts were not under but upper crofts, fituated in the roofs be- 
tween the circular ftone ceiling and the ftone pediment roof; as in 
the churches of Glendaloch and Cafhel, agreeable to the cuftom 
of the Mafforabic Chriftians, who ftill ufe fuch apartments as 
choirs+. On this account the roofs of the Irifh churches were 
raifed remarkably high, and gave them a different appearance from 
thofe of the Saxons. Another diftinguifhing feature between the 
Saxon and the Irifh architeture, was the infulated round tower 
of the latter, which the Anglo Saxons do not appear to have ufed, 
any more than the Italians, at leaft very f{paringly; but numbers 
are to be found near the old Greek churches in the Eaft, which 
were by the Moflems adopted as minarets to their temples, and 
watch towers to their fortrefs,; as appears from feveral ftill re- 
maining on the Ebro, and in other parts of Spainf. 
Tuovucu it has been obferved that the Greek architeCture had 
been introduced into Britain about the middle of the feventh cen- 
tury, yet flone buildings were by no means common till towards 
the clofe of the ninth; for St. Paul’s Church, London, continued 
of wood to the year 900, when Bifhop Theodred rebuilt it of 
ftone 
* Grofe’s Antiq. vol. 1. 
+ Swinburn’s Travels in Spain. 
{ Ibid. 
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