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Banwell and Cheddar are noble towers of this kind, where 
the turret stands out very prominently, and its pinnacle 
soars above all the rest ; but stilla buttress and pinnacle, 
like those at the other angles, creeps up by the side of it. 
In fact, the only difference between these and some of the 
first class consists in the finish of the corner turret. Thus 
the very stately tower of Weston Zoyland has lost its pin- 
nacles ; if in any work of restoration, one large pinnacle 
should be clapped on the turret (which, however, does not 
seem to have been its original finish) it would at once be 
elassed with Banwell and Cheddar. The tower at Bleadon, 
to judge from the engraving in Rutter’s Somersetshire, 
seems to bear some resemblance to Banwell, but must be 
very inferior. It has diagonal buttresses, and the stage 
below the belfry is blank. The engraving does not show 
whether there are any buttresses at the turret angle or not, 
but I should think there hardly could be. 
Iam obliged to place this second class higher than the 
first in the scale of architectural merit, as it certainly marks 
a higher style of art, to bring forward into »sthetical pro- 
minence any feature which really exists, and to treat it 
accordingly. But I must confess that the actual examples 
of the first please me much more. St. Stephen’s is, after all, 
rather wonderful than pleasing ; none, in fact, ofthe Bristol 
towers have any thing of the exquisite grace and delicacy 
of Bishop’s Lydiard. Banwell is indeed a most beautiful 
tower, but the general character of its composition approx- 
imates much more nearly to Lydiard than to St. Stephen’s. 
Third Class, Wrington. I now come to the third class, 
which, to my mind is immeasurably superior to either of 
the others, whether in ideal merit or in actual magnificence 
ofeffect. Itisa small class, and differs widely from the 
other two, which may indeed be ranked together in oppo- 
