ON THE PERPENDICÜLAR OF SOMERSET. 15 



setshire. It is not usual, when the clerestory is absent 

 and the nave has a high roof, to find a covering of the same 

 sort added to the aisles, so as to produce the efFect of 

 varied groupings among the numerous gables. Dunster 

 is the only example which occurs to me on a large scale. 

 There are smaller instances at Mlnehead, St. James in 

 Taunton, Bishop's Hüll, and Whitchurch, in which last case, 

 as we have seen, the Perpendicular enlargement was con- 

 ducted with a most unusual regard to the former character 

 of the building. But even where the aisle has a high roof, 

 it is often disguised with a parapet or battlement, as at 

 Crowcombe and the two Lydiards ; more frequently still 

 does the high roof of the nave rise above aisles with a 

 lean-to, finished with a parapet of various degrees of rich- 

 ness. This somewhat unpleasant contrast is conspicuous 

 at Trull, Burrington, Portishead, Portbury, Churchül, St. 

 Werburgh's at Bristol, and even in such stately fabrics 

 as Temple in the same city, as Yeovil, Wedmore, and 

 Axbridge. The peculiar arrangement in the choir of 

 Bristol Cathedral is in a manner analogous, but, as we have 

 Been, does not directly proceed from a similar cause. 



Among churches without clerestories, I must not omit to 

 mention the very remarkable edifice at Cannington. This 

 is an uniform Perpendicular building, very short and very 

 lofty ; there is no constructive distinction between nave and 

 chancel, within or without, except that the aisles do not 

 run to the east end. A single external roof embraces nave, 

 aisles, and chancel. The arrangement then is identical with 

 that of some of the worst modern churches ; and my first 

 momentary impression was that the church was modern, 

 or greatly modernized, but such is not the case. It is 

 rather like Whiston in Northamptonshire, only with a steep 

 roof. The general external effect is, of course, not good, but 

 the height of the east end is magnificent- 



