ON THE PERPENDICüLAR OF SOMERSET. 43 



with each other. The arcade, in utter contrast to the 

 presbytery, is so very uninterrupted that it has no 

 connexion or reference whatever to the upper portion ; 

 panelled arches also, in this position, seem to me a mistake, 

 nor am I provided with any other Somersetshire example. 

 But the clerestory alone is most noble, and exhibits 

 exactly the same feeling as that ia the presbytery. 



I will extend that remark to the choir of Bath Abbey. 

 After the very ingenious defence of that cathedral made at 

 cur last Annual Äleeting by one much better conversant 

 with the buüding than myself, I must be very cautious in 

 my criticisms ; but I cannot bring myself to admire the low 

 piers and broad arches, with their enormous mouldings, so 

 completely deserting the multiplying for the magnifying 

 principle. But thegrand clerestory windows, fitting into 

 the magnificent fan vault, are noble in the extreme, not- 

 withstanding a certain poverty of detail. The vertical 

 division, lost in the nave of Sherborne, is here fully brought 

 out by shafts with angel capitals supporting the vault . 



BELPRY AND CHANCEL ARCHES, ETC. 



Those arches which do not form part of continuous 

 arcades, and those which are Lq less conspicuous positions 

 of the churches, sometimes resemble, but more frequently 

 differ from, the main arcades of the nave. Subordinate 

 arches, as those leading into small chapels, or from aisles 

 into transepts, are very frequently segmental or four- 

 centered ; they are also often panelled, or fumished with 

 discontinuous imposts. The great transverse arches, the 

 chancel and belfry arches, cannot faU to be important 

 features ; but the same circumstances which detract from 

 the importance of the chancel in the Somersetshh'e churches, 



