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part of the large central tower * above the roof, 
with its inverted arches inside. I have not 
been able to discover the slightest record of the 
building of these portions, but I suspect they 
were bishop Harewell’s work. He was a munifi- 
cent patron of the church, a builder, and being 
the chaplain of Edward the Black Prince, must 
have known “ William of \Wvykeham,” the intro- 
ducer of the perpendicular style and grand master 
of the Free Masons of that date. The architecture 
bespeaks William of Wykeham’s period, when the 
decorated was changing to the perpendicular. The 
niches and the figures at the corners of the tower, 
were evidently added long after; the mouldings 
do not correspond the one with the other, and they 
are of later perpendicular character. It does not 
appear that the tower ever contained bells; in fact 
* Here again early English work has been altered into perpendicular, 
and the capitals of the tower pillars have lost all their beautiful early 
English carving thereby. I would also notice that the ashler near the 
south triforium, bespeaks some slight displacement to have taken place, 
either from the scaffolding or fixing of the centering, when the arches 
wereadded. It is possible that injuries which happened to the capitals 
atthe same time, may have caused their alteration. 
f How this Tower originally finished is a curious question. The 
heads of the elaborate and beautiful combination of early English arches 
inside, extend some feet above the level of the early English string 
course on the outside. After attentive examination, Iam inclined to 
believe that originally there was a square early English tower of con- 
siderable height, whether finishing in a broached spire or not, I cannot 
say ; but the early English mouldings, &e. have been cut into new work 
for some feet up on the outside. The stones are evidently portions of 
the oldtower, the work new. 
