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chancel and transept are tlirown into utter insignificance by 

 the group of structures attached to the south aisle. I have 

 mentioned that the porch grows into something like a 

 College gateway ; east of this, on the same line, is a large 

 chapel, wltli enorraously lofty Windows, stretching east so as 

 to johl the transept, but projectmg far in front of it. The 

 west and north sides ofFer nothing very remarkable. 



Another very fine cruciform church is that of Axbridge. 

 It has, externally at least, no individvial feature which can 

 be compared to the grander portions of Ilminster and 

 Crewkerne, but I am not sure whether it is not a more 

 harmonious whole than elther of them. And this, notwith- 

 standing sonie palpable defects. A building of this class 

 certainly wants a clerestory, and we feel the lack here more 

 acutely than at Wedmore, from the very cause that this 

 church is a compact whole, gathered closely around its pre- 

 dominant centre, and not, like Wedmore, a collection of 

 unconnected fragments. The four main limbs have high 

 roofs ; the aisles, with much the same height in the walls, 

 have lean-to roofs, adorned on the south slde with the pierced 

 parapet. Hence, as the transepts project scarcely at all 

 beyond the aisles, the distinction is left to be made almost 

 entirely by means of the roofs, so that, especially on the 

 south side, the gable of the transept has rather the air of a 

 mere interruption to the horizontal line of the aisle than of 

 a distinct portion of the church. Perhaps the effect rather 

 resembles that of such churches as Fairford and Magor than 

 of the complete and genuine cruciform structure, The 

 extreme east end is here also unconnected, and unworthy of 

 the rest of the building. Nevertheless, the general effect 

 of the whole is both striking and satisfactory ; to the noble 

 central tower I have already alluded. 



Yeovil is a very large and fine church with transepts. 



