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lance was seen through the clefts of it”; unluckily, its 
“ crest,” whether “ wrathful” or more peaceably disposed, 
has entirely fallen, and its battlement is not merely 
“rent,” but wholly swept away. That is, to translate 
from Ruskinish into English, the whole parapet has been 
either left unfinished, or has been totally destroyed, the 
turrets coming suddenly to a stop at the top of the belfry- 
stage. 
This immense tower consists of five stages, three of 
which rise above the church, though the high roof of the 
nave slightly encroaches upon the lowest of them. Of 
these five, on the north and south sides, one only besides the 
belfry-stage has received any ornament whatever ; this is 
the central one of the five, wlıich contains a not very pro- 
minent window, and has a band of flint panelling beneath 
it. The belfry-stage itself consists of two small two-light 
windows, thrown into one by the addition of a crocketted 
ogee label, so that practically this tower also has the single 
belfry-window. Ineed hardly point out how completely 
this differs from that gradual increase of lightness and 
ornament towards the top which is nowhere so thoroughly 
carried out as at Bishop’s Lydeard. The angle-turrets are 
adorned throughout with flint panelling. 
The architeetural history of Wymondham church ought 
to be studied in Mr. Petit’s admirable memoir in the 
Norwich volume of the Archzological Institute. The 
present eastern tower—the “abbey steeple,”—is a little 
earlier in date than the parish tower at the west end, and 
forms a most marked contrast to it in character. It is a 
slender octagon, rising two tall stages above the roof, being 
thus a little lower and very much less massive than its 
western rival. Each stage has a tall narrow window of 
two lights in each of the cardinal faces ; a buttress, by an 
