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When the clerestory is present, it is generally of moderate 

 elevation, quite siifficient inside, but very frequently, as at 

 Crewkeme and Stoke St. Gregory, precluded by the large 

 parapet of the aisles from having its due efFect without. It 

 is not usually so thickly set with windows as is frequently 

 the case in Perpendicular churches in other districts ; the 

 aisle is commonly miich more "diaphanous" than the 

 clerestory. Thus at Wrington, Yatton, Banwell, North 

 Cui-ry, Glastonbmy, and Cheddar there is only a Single 

 window of moderate size in eaeh bay, so that they are by no 

 meaus thick together. At Crewkerne there are indeed two 

 Windows in each bay, but the immense width of the bays 

 absolutely required it, and it in no degree approaches to 

 the appearance of Newark and other churches where a 

 similar arrangement is used. At St. Mary Magdalen, 

 Taunton, St. Cuthbert's, Wells, St. Stephen's, Bristol, 

 and at Bruton and Martock, there is a single window in 

 each bay of greater breadth, but still nothing at all out 

 of the way. At St. Stephen's the clerestory is strangely 

 enough concealed by a compass roof to the aisle, reversing 

 the ordinary defect. 



Inthethreegreat churches, however, wefind the clerestory 

 far more conspicuous. At St. Mary Redcliffe the clerestory 

 is indeed much larger than is usual in chui'ches of any kind, 

 but I do not think that any one can call its size dispropor- 

 tionate either within or without. Within it certainly is 

 not. At Bath the designer seems to have imitated Redcliffe 

 without much discretion, and has produced a clerestory of 

 decidedly disprcportionate size, throwing the aisles into 

 complete insignificance. The Redcliffe arrangement seems 

 also copied in the choir of Christ Church, Hampshire. It 

 is also to be found in an exaggerated form in Sherbome 

 Minster, where the clerestory is decidedly the most im- 

 portant portion of the building, and occupies a still larger 



