PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SOMERSETSHIRE ARCH/EOLOGICAL AND 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 
1854, PART II. 
PAPRRBS; ETC; 
Che Perpendirnlar of Somevset rumparet 
with that uf Cnat-Anglin. 
BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A. 
_—— 
DISCOURSE on the architecture of Norfolk may 
A possibly at first sight be regarded as a subject not 
altogether appropriate to be brought before a Somerset- 
shire society. Yet I trust that a little consideration will 
show that, in the aspect from which I mean to consider it, 
it forms an essential portion of the subjeet which I have 
brought before you from time to time ever since the com- 
mencement of my connexion with your body. My objeet 
has been to illustrate the peculiarities of Somersetshire 
architecture, especially during the Perpendicular age, 
and in no way can I so vividly show you in what those 
peculiarities consist, as by contrasting your local style with 
that of some other distriet. Now the architecture of East- 
Anglia is at once sufliciently like and sufficiently unlike 
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