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stages; Taunton or Lydiard appears by the side of it 
hardly a less complete unity than Wrington itself. This 
distinctness is partly effected by bands of panelling, for 
which there is Somersetshire precedent at Huish Episcopi, 
but much more by the general character of the design. 
There areno surfaces panelled in window patterns;only the 
windows themselves, with all their tracery pierced, and no 
stone work between the mullions. There is no pinnacle or 
canopy work at all. We may remark that in Somerset 
the decoration is more equably disposed over the whole 
design, while in this of Titchmarsh it, so to speak, lies 
thick in patches, leaving a large portion of the surface 
quite plain. 
SMALLER TOWERS. 
In arranging the towers in their several classes, I have 
of course chiefly had an eye to those remarkable for their 
size or magnificencee. But a visitor to Somersetshire will 
be grievously disappointed if he expects to-find every parish 
supplying a rival to North Petherton or Weston Zoyland. 
I have already alluded to the octagonal type of different 
dates, and to the very plain towers of earlier date, or at 
least nowise affected by the general Perpendicular style 
of the county. But besides these there are a good many 
small and comparatively plain Perpendicular towers which 
evidently pretend to some imitation of their more stately 
neighbours. Thus Churchill and Locking towers are re- 
spectable structures, chiefly of the Banwell type; Kewstoke 
is a still smaller specimen of the more distinet Bristol class. 
So at Crowcombe and ILydiard St. Lawrence are small 
towers which evidently stand in the same, or perhaps a 
rather more distant, relation to Taunton and Bishop’s 
Lydiard. At Burrington and Portbury are still plainer 
Perpendicular towers ; the former indeed without pinnacles 
