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curity to the top of the tower. Of the same general type 
is St. Werburgh’s, and several smaller steeples in Bristol. 
A famous example of this class is the celebrated tower of 
Dundry, which I have myself only seen at so great a dis- 
tance, that for its details I must trust to engravings. It 
has the same sort of parapet, with open turrets and pro- 
jecting pinnacles, as Taunton and St. Stephen’s; but itis by 
no means so artistically treated as the latter. The but- 
tresses, being more prominent, require a greater connection 
with the parapet than they possess—a fault less con- 
spicuous in the square outline of St. Stephen’s—and the 
manner in which the square open turret is set upon the 
octagonal one which it crowns, seems extremely awkward, 
though it is, as we shall hereafter see, by no means un- 
paralleled. 
These two classes naturally run very much into one 
another, the only difference being in the degree of promi- 
nence given to a feature which exists in both cases. I 
should consider those only to be pure examples of this 
second, in which buttresses are entirely absent from the 
corner occupied by the staircase-turret, so as to give the 
latter its full importance. It is no wonder then that we 
meet with an intermediate class, in which the turret stands 
out much more boldly than in the first class, but still has 
not entirely dispensed with the buttresses at that angle. 
Such I conceive to have been the famous leaning tower 
of Temple church in Bristol, one whose appearance is now 
ragged and unpleasing, but which, when its parapet was 
in existence, and before its other ornaments had crumbled 
away, must have ranked as quite the second steeple in the 
eity. Here Ican only conceive that the turret would have 
been crowned with a single large pinnacle ; but still its 
lower portions are very much cloaked by buttresses. At 
