PERPENDICULAR OF SOMERSET AND EAST-ANGLIA. 5 
is the greater average size of the latter. I have re- 
marked in former papers that many of the finest Somer- 
setshire churches, Wrington for instance, have their naves 
too short for their height, cramped as they often were 
between the tower at. one end and the chancel at the other. 
Very fine churches have naves of only four or five bays ; 
Crewkerne, with its broad arches, has only three. Putting 
aside St. Mary Redcliffe, the largest I know are Martock, 
North Petherton, Bridgwater, and Weston Zoyland.* In 
East-Anglia many churches far exceed these in length; 
naves of six and seven bays are the usual thing in buildings 
of any pretensions, and they sometimes extend to eight, 
nine, andeventen. Again, according to acustom on which 
I shall presently enlarge, there are generally two clerestory 
windows over each bay, so that ranges are produced of from 
twelve to twenty windows, to which Somersetshire can 
afford no parallel. Crewkerne is the only Somersetshire 
church I remember with two windows over each arch, and 
that can only muster six! The vast length of these naves 
has this special advantage, that two or three of the western 
bays are often left quite free from seats, to the great 
improvement of the general effect, and also to the much 
better display of the magnificent fonts for which the 
distriet is renowned, and which thus become subordinate 
central points at the west end. 
The fully developed cross form, with the central tower, 
of which Somersetshire affords such noble examples, seems 
to be rare in Norfolk, except of course in the case of 
great minsters, like Norwich, Wymondham, and Lynn. 
By Lynn I of course mean the vast fabrie of St. Marga- 
* Dunster occurs as a Somersetshire church of still greater size, 
but its monastie destination and irregular plan exclude it from the 
comparison, 
