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playing images ; the interstices of the windows are filled 
in with utterly unconnected panelling and niches. Not 
so in the best Somersetshire towers of either type ; at 
Wrington and Huish the whole steeple forms an architec- 
tural unity ; the subsidiary arts may have their place, 
but they are never allowed to usurp a supremacy over their 
queen and mistress. Swaffham and Hingham and Wy- 
mondham are noble structures, and well worthy a journey, 
even out of Somersetshire, to examine them ; but, unless 
Cromer and 'Worstead can present something very different 
and immeasurably superior, Norfolk can never, in the 
article of towers, be put into competition with the distriet 
which has produced Wrinsten and Wells, Huish and 
Lydeard, Montacute and St. Stephens. 
INTERNAL ELEVATIONS. 
The piers, arches, elerestories, ete., of the East-Anglian 
churches afford a better subject than the towers for com- 
parison with those of Somerset. In general effect they 
are often very similar, but they present a most remarkable 
diversity in detail. I pointed out in one of my former 
papers the distinguishing characteristics of the Somerset- 
shire Perpendicular as applied to these portions of the 
churches. The pier is a lozenge with attached shafts ; 
the shafts have round capitals, frequently floriated ; the 
hollows between the shafts are continued uninterruptedly 
round the arch; the wave-moulding is lavishly employed. 
All this illustrates the general character of the style, the 
union of the most intense eontinuity of lines with a good 
deal of the purity and beauty of detail belonging to the 
earlier styles. The East-Anglian Perpendicular is widely 
different, and, I think, less distinetively English. Certainly 
some of its peculiarities approach more nearly to the 
