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towers, but requiring no minute description or criticism. 
St. Giles is loftier, but not richer ; here we have the 
double buttress, finishing under the belfry-stage in a flat 
turret ; the belfry-windows are the largest of any I have 
mentioned. 
At East Dereham, the central tower, being open quite 
to the top, forms a noble lantern to the interior. It rises 
only one stage above the roof, and, as might be expected 
from its position, shape, and purpose, it has the double 
belfry-window. The campanile is a plain, massive structure, 
with diagonal buttresses ; both have lost their parapets 
and pinnacles, if ever they had any. 
The superb tower of Hingham is rather late Decorated 
than Perpendicular, but the two styles run so much into 
one another in this district, and this tower is so grand a 
specimen, that I cannot forbear mentioning it. It is a 
flint steeple, without any ornament besides its windows ; 
but both its design and workmanship are of a very high 
order, and it possesses that especial majesty of outline, 
which results from the union of height with massiveness. 
It consists of six stages, three of which now rise above the 
nave, though, while the latter retained its high roof, the 
greater part of the lowest of the three must have been 
hidden by it. The three other sides of this stage contain 
each a two-light window, which, to the south at least, is 
blank ; the belfry-windows are similar ; the intermediate 
stage has mere slits. All these windows, together with the 
east window, have excellent Flowing tracery. This tower has 
massive double buttresses, with a turret worked in between 
them at the south-west angle ; these buttresses finish 
immediately under the parapet, with a very bold set-oft, as 
if they were designed to support a spire. 
I think it will appear from these descriptions that the 
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