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unusual arrangement, being set against the centre of each 
of the other faces, thus connecting them with the square 
base of the tower. It should be remarked that both towers 
have Decorated tracery in their windows, a localism which 
I shall again have occasion to mention. 
The tower of St. Peter Mancroft, the principal parish 
church in Norwich, is as unlike as possible to the west 
tower of Wymondham, but it does not therefore come any 
nearer to any of our western types. It is remarkable for 
massiveness and elaboration of ornament, rather than for 
height, being one mass of panelling and niches from the 
basement to—I cannot say the battlement, because this 
tower, like Wymondham, has quite lost its finish. The 
lower portion forms, or would form, were it not blocked, 
an open porch on three arches ; the west window is of a 
prodigious height, and the belfry-stage above contains a 
single large window, with panelling and niches on each 
side quite unconnected with its design. There are 
very elaborate double buttresses, those at the south-east 
angle concealing a turret; and the whole tower batters 
very conspicuously. 
The smaller parish churches of Norwich present an 
extensive study of Perpendicular towers, but they are 
not of much importance. Many of them are good, bold 
compositions, but they attract no special attention. They 
all have the single belfry-window, and most of them the 
diagonal buttress.. Some* present good examples of the 
peculiar air or sound-holes in the central stages; square 
apertures filled with tracery, which are very characteristic 
of the distriet. Some have a large staircase-turret, 
making a prominent object on one side, as at St. Lawrence, 
St. Andrew, and St. Michael Coslany, all good plain 
* See Rickman, p. 220, 5th ed, 
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