CHUBCH Or ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, KINGSTON. 43 



The whole arrangement glves that net work appearance to 

 the parapet, which, I believe, may fairly be characterized as 

 the " Gloucester battlement," the tower of Gloucester 

 Cathedral forming, as I imaglne, the type of all the Somer- 

 setshire towers of this character, and intended, doubtless, 

 by their pious builders, to lead our minds upwards from 

 these material and perishable structures to that Temple 

 not made wlth hands, eternal in the heavens. 



