60 FAPERS, ETC. 



spire-growth, the lateral continuity is totally tlestroyed 

 by its double Windows, its top-heaviness and instability 

 increased by the disproportionate size of its magnificent 

 pinnacles, the base even on the south side being apparently 

 weakened by the Insertion of three niches in the mass of 

 wall, and the smallness of the area of its base, together 

 with the lamentably decayed State of the stone of which it 

 is built, altogether give such an app6arance of insecurity, 

 as to render a distant view, at least to me, much more 

 agreeable than a close one. 



At the beginning of my paper I apologised for intruding 

 upon the province of professional architects ; I will, there- 

 fore, now say no more than this, — that 1 am quite aware 

 that, if I have performed my task at all, I have done so in 

 a very imperfect and slovenly manner. But if my view 

 has any truth in It, and I cannot help thinking that it has 

 some, I will conclude, not altogether without hope that 

 these hints, in the hands of scientific men, may perhapa 

 be productive of some slight good to the practice of 

 ecclesiastical architecture. 



