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has been destroyed, and an aisle carried along nearly the 
whole length of the church, produeing an outline very 
common in Jersey, but very rare anywhere else. This 
little church has many points well worthy attention, but 
chiely on grounds quite alien to our present purpose. 
At Othery, a cross church without aisles, and at Kingston, 
if I may be allowed the bull, a cross church without 
transepts, the original ground-plan is untouched, but the 
central towers have been re-built in Perpendicular times. 
Stoke St. Gregory is perhaps a more instructive case than 
any. This was originally a small Early English eross church 
with a central octagon. Of this fabric, the chancel, tran- 
septs, and tower seem to remain, with only alterations in 
detail. But a large Perpendicular nave and aisles, alto- 
gether disproportioned to the size of the church, have been 
substituted for the original western limb. So great was 
the increase of height that the ridge of the new nave roof 
came very nearly to alevel with the top of the original 
tower. Consequently the Perpendicular builders added 
another stage to the latter in a manner harmonizing better 
with the original than such alterations often do ; and, what 
ought to be accurately observed, the original belfry windows 
were blocked and converted into niches for images. 
In these cruciform buildings the original fabrics have 
necessarily had more influence on their successors than in 
other instances. They supplied an important feature in 
the central towers, which it would have been wanton 
prodigality to have destroyed. But even in other cases, 
their influence has not been unimportant. The retention 
of the original chancels has prevented one common Per- 
pendicular development from obtaining in Somersetshire. 
We do not meet with the quasi-basilican type of Per- 
pendicular church, in which the aisles run uninterruptedly 
