ON THE PERPENDICULAR OF SOMERSET. 33 



at once that the round flowei'ed capital occurs in the 

 yaulting-shafts of Winchester Cathedra!, — but I think I 

 may safely say that they are rare, except in this county 

 and in dlstricts subject to its infiuence. The Perpendicular 

 of the midland counties is decidedly difFerent; the capitals 

 are usually octagonal, and not flowered ; the sections of 

 piers and arch-moulding8, especially the latter, seldora 

 resemble what we find in Somersetshire ; and the beauti- 

 ftd tracery of the Somersetshire windows is almost entirely 

 unknown. jSIarket Harborougli, Oadby, Great Claybrook, 

 Narborough, Whiston, Isllp, and Fotheringhay, all in 

 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, have very good 

 Peq)endicular interiors ; but both in com}X)sition and 

 detail they differ widely fi'om the Somersetshire specimens, 

 and moreover differ much more widely among themselves 

 than the latter do. And, to come nearer, the PeqDen- 

 dicular even of Gloucestershire, except in some of the 

 Southern parts where Bristol influence is at work, is widely 

 different fi'om that of Somerset ; the Perpendicular parts 

 of Gloucester Cathedral are clearly not of the same class 

 as Kedcliffe and Sherborne ; nor does Cirencester present 

 any marked resemblance to the great Somersetshire parish 

 churches. Less elaborate buildings, as Dursley and even 

 Northleach, differ still more widely from Somersetshire 

 churches of the second order. In few of them is the Per- 

 pendicular notion so ftilly carried out ; in still fewer do we 

 find the same retention of earlier details. 



PIERS AND ARCHES, 



Nowhere is a local impress in architecture more easily to 

 be recognized than in the pillars of the Somersetshire 

 churches ; one uniform section runs through the whole, any 

 dcviation from which is at oncc notcd as an exccptiou. 



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