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many magnificent buildings with which I was previously 

 unacquainted, or which I knevv only by drawings; and I am 

 only glad that the result of my inquirles has been, that very 

 little modification of my former views is requu'ed. I have 

 not found any distinct class of enriched towers besides 

 those which I before endeavoured to classify ; but I have 

 Seen so many fine individual examples, that I cannot help 

 bestowing a few words upon them. I may also mention 

 that a third church of the cathedral and abbatial type 

 must be refei-red to the local style. The Minster at 

 Sherborne, which I examined in the course of my journey, 

 although situated beyond the limits of the county and 

 diocese, must be considered as being, in all its most 

 essential characters, a Somersetshire church. 



Of the first, or Taunton type, I have seen several very 

 splendid examples ; two especiaUy — Bruton and Huish 

 Episcopi, which may fairly dispute between themselves 

 the first rank in their own class. Huish is one of the most 

 niajcstic of towers ; I shall never forget the effect of my 

 first twilight glimpse of it. But I may add that at no 

 subsequent moment did I admire it so much as at that 

 first glimpse ; whereas, in the case of Wrington, I always 

 find that the first feeling, when I revisit it, is one of disap- 

 pointment, but that its super-eminent beauty gradually 

 grows again upon me. But to return to our present com- 

 petitors : Huish is by far the grander and more enriched ; 

 but Bruton has a simple dignity about it approaching 

 more nearly to the exquisite grace of Bishop's Lydiard. 

 The battlement and pinnacles of Huish are a marvel of 

 elaborate work, but I must confess that those of Bruton 

 please me much better, as being more truly the natural 

 finish of the tower ; and I am not sure that the horizontal 

 bands of foliation at Huish do not carry the principle of 



