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his legs through the ceiling, while his body remalns in the 

 room overhead. 



The double buttresses at Crewkerne finish, each in its 

 own pinnacle, at a little distance from the angle, which 

 certainly produces an effect of weakness. The like is the 

 ease with the angle-turret, which terminates in an array 

 of small pinnacles, instead of a single spire or dorne. 

 Between these two splendid fabrics lies the little church 

 of Kingston, which I have already mentioned as an 

 example of the Iffley type, a nave and chancel with a 

 tower between them. Piain and unpretending as is this 

 little steeple, it exhibits the genuine Somersetshire feeling 

 in its double buttresses away from the angle. Its stair- 

 case-turret is placed on the south side, near the east end, 

 but it cannot be said to occupy a comer. 



There is another central tower which I must mention, 

 in the desecrated Priory church at Woodspring. The 

 ground plan is very singular ; a nave and north aisle, a 

 choir, now destroyed, and a central tower ; there are 

 no transepts, but a läutern is formed by arches in the 

 thickness of the wall. The tower itself is of the sanie 

 class as Dunster and Othery, except that the angle-turret 

 is wanting, and that the work generally is more elaborate. 

 The character of the belfry-stage is unusual in Somerset, 

 there being a single large window in each face, so far re- 

 eembling Othery, but with no likeness whatever in the 

 individual windows actually employed. 



Of the noblest form of central towers I can only pro- 

 duce from Somersetsliire a very unworthy representative, 

 though as there are several grand churches in the 

 county which I have as yet been unable to reach, I would 

 fain hope some of them may contain specimens fit to 



