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Perpendicular work. Martock is the only strictly parochial 

 Soraersetshire example with which I am prepared. Here 

 the design is one of singular magnificence ; the spandril 

 patterns are very elaborate, the string above the arches has 

 a crest of Tudor flowers, and angels appear as a sort of 

 keystones. 



There is also an extremely local practice, which looks 

 llke an attempt to bring the roof and clerestory into 

 some degree of that connexion with each other which the 

 vault alone can completely eifect. Both at Wrington 

 and Banwell a trefoil arch is thrown across from the capitala 

 vraden the roof, the rear-arch of the clerestory window 

 fitting into its npper foü. It has quite the aspect of an 

 arch traced out for vaulting, yet such could hardly have 

 been its Intention. In the aisles of Yatton, and the nave 

 of Congresbury, we find arches nearly similarly employed, 

 and the spandrlls fiUed up with panelling, which probably 

 was the Intention in the others also, unless indeed a timber 

 vault was at any time contemplated. 



Between Wrington and Martock must lie the rivalry for 

 the palm of superior internal beauty. The greater size of 

 Martock, — Wrington, as I said, being decidedly too short, — 

 gives it an unquestioned superiority in general effect ; 

 taking bay against bay, the case is not quite so clear, The 

 general notion of Wrington is of a higher class ; it has more 

 of simplicity and hanuony, its pillars are more elaborately 

 clustered, its capitals are richer ; while Martock suffers a 

 little from its clerestory seeming comparatively bare between 

 the extraordinary splendour of its arcades and its roof. 

 Still there is such a magnificence about the latter as to 

 dlsarm all criticism, and, I think, on the whole, to establish 

 the claim of Martock to the first place among the strictly 

 parochial interiors of the county. 



