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to the superadded Perpendicular stage at Puddimore. I 

 cannot say much for the two churclies ; neither have any 

 original aisles or transepts ; Ilchester, however, has a late 

 chapel added to the north, which tries to be very fine, but 

 hardly succeeds. The incipient Geometrical east window 

 of Ilchester is the best thing in either of them. Chilthorne 

 Dormer is a little church which took my fancy greatly, 

 with its quaint bell-cot, like that at Brimpton somewhat 

 enlarged. It has an east window, like Ilchester, and sorae 

 other pretty details. Thorn Coffin is hardly worth stop- 

 ping for, except because it has a bell-gable. These three 

 are the only Instances I have yet seen in Somerset, though 

 there may doubtless be others. Nuraerous as are the 

 cases in which the original chureh was towerless, in every 

 other instance which has come within my knowledge, 

 some subsequent benefactor has been found to supply the 

 deficiency. 



My long circuit is now accompllshed, but I cannot 

 help stepplng beyond its limits to mention again a few 

 churches to which I have already alluded, and a few 

 that I have not mentioned. Trent has a noble ex- 

 ample of a lateral tower and spire ; it is balanced to 

 the north by what I might call a transept, were it not 

 gabled to the east. The cruciform church of Ditcheat 

 retains in its chancel, modified as it is, a fine series of 

 Decorated windows with the foliated rear-arch. North 

 Curry and Stoke St. Gregory I cannot allude to too often 

 as most Instructive examples of the central octagon. At 

 Woolavington may be seen the comparatively rare feature 

 of lateral triplets in the chancel. This church had a west- 

 ern chapel, now destroyed, beyond its western tower. 

 Bawdrip is a good speclmen of a simple cross church with 

 a central tower ; Othery gives the old arrangement modi- 



