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To come at last, then, to the tower, I believe I must 

 content myself on the present occasion with giving a 

 general opinion, that it is one of the most correct and 

 classical of its data in this nelghbourhood, though I confesa 

 myself quite unequal to the task of di'awing a comparison 

 between it and other towers of this style. I believe, also, 

 that detailed accounts of these towers, written by a much 

 abier band, have been read before this Society, and no 

 doubt that of such a tower as Kingston has been included 

 amongst them. 



There is, as I imagine, rather a peculiar feature in its 

 construction, inasmuch as its breadth from north to south 

 exceeds its length from east to west. This plan was pro- 

 bably adopted to suit the width of the Early English nave. 



It consists of three stages, the angles being supported 

 by bold Square buttresses, surmounted with pinnacles, 

 which disengage themselves at the bottom of the blocking 

 course of the gorgeous parapet which crowns the whole. 



In the second stage there is one window on each face, 

 with niches, supported by angel brackets on either side of 

 them, except on the north side, where the window is piain, 

 the Space being occupied by the staircase turret which 

 Stands at the north east angle, and is terminated in a 

 conical cap. 



The third stage contains the bell chamber, where are 

 six bells of good tone, one of them being a black letter bell. 

 There are two Windows on the east, south, and west sides 

 of this stage and but one on the north, for the reason 

 before assigned. 



The parapet is turreted and battlemeuted and has a pin- 

 nacle at each angle, from which are bracketed out four 

 flying pinnacles from the level of the cap moulding, and 

 not from the base of the parapet, as is usually the case. 



