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me much of Sedgemoor ; there is the same wide expanse 
intersected by rhines, but with this important difference, 
that in Marshland the expanse is simply boundless; no 
mountain-ranges fence in its horizon ; no Brent Knoll or 
Glastonbury Tor diversifies its dreariness. Here is un- 
doubtedly the grandest group of village churches I know 
of, the work of a most abiding spirit of taste and munifi- 
cence, no age or style being unrepresented. The stately 
Norman pile of Walsoken is succeeded by the elaborate 
Lancet work of West Walton ; a few miles further lead 
us to the vast Decorated pile of Walpole St. Peters, its 
gorgeous porch and illimitable clerestory ; finally, in Ter- 
rington St. Clements, we reach a still more gigantie 
Perpendicular building, with a west front rivalling Yatton 
and Crewkerne, and a whole nave which would not dis- 
grace a small cathedral. In these magnificent fabrics the 
Perpendieular is not the exclusive or predominant style, 
and, where it does occur, its peculiarities are not so 
strongly marked as in the distriet farther east. Again, 
though buildings of nearly equal splendour occur here 
and there in other parts of Norfolk, they do not seem to 
lie nearly so thick upon the ground. As in many parts 
of Somerset, we find an occasional splendid building, with 
several insignificant ones between each ; the average of the 
churches in North Northamptonshire would probably be 
higher than in either Norfolk or Somerset ; though no 
Northamptonshire church, hardly Rothwell or Warmington 
or Fotheringhay, could be set against the finest examples 
in those two counties. 
GENERAL OUTLINES. 
The first thing that strikes the observer in comparing the 
larger parish churches of Somerset and of East-Anglıa, 
