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patterns of stone-work between the mullions, instead of 
the ordinary louvre-boards. This we find as early as the 
Decorated octagon at North Curry. The buttresses in the 
best towers are also almost invariably double, and placed at 
a little distance from the angles; the diagonal buttress is 
chiefly confined to towers of smaller pretensions and, 
strange to say, to central towers, where it seems least 
of all in place. Pinnacles are not uncommon on the set- 
off of buttresses at various heights. When we come to 
consider the influence of Somersetshire upon the neigh- 
bouring distriets, we shall find that some of these features 
are common to the Somersetshire towers and those which 
seem to be imitated from them, while others seem dis- 
tinctive, or nearly so, of the model region itself. 
I cannot help contrasting with the towers of Somerset, 
one of the noblest that I know in a region where they 
cannot be supposed to have exerted any influence, and a 
view of which may perhaps help to show how closely, with 
all their differences, they hang together as members of one 
great class. I allude to the tower of Titchmarsh Church, 
Northamptonshire, remarkable as the only tower, of any 
consequence, in that eounty, standing by itself and not 
supporting a spire or lantern. It at once strikes the eye 
as something altogether different from any of the Somer- 
setshire classes. The treatment of the buttresses, flat 
turrets, and pinnacles, may indeed, to a certain extent, re- 
call the type of Wrington and Wells, but the resemblance is 
exceedingly slight, as the distinetive mark of the small 
pinnacles carried up in a larger one is absent. The 
arrangement as used at Titchmarsh is very common in 
Northamptonshire. In other respeets there is no resem- 
blance to any Somersetshire type. The proportions are far 
more massive, and far greater distinctness is given to the 
