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St. Peter Mancroft is managed in the same way in the 
two latter respects, but it is a building of a much more 
ornate character than that last mentioned, and differs 
widely from it in almost everything else. The piers are 
not of the ordinary Perpendicular type, but rather resem- 
ble those of the earlier styles ; they are not lozenges with 
shafts attached, but clusters of shafts with hollows between 
them; the capitals of the shafts also include the whole 
pier, so that there is no continuity between the arch and 
the pier, nor any shafts rising from the floor to the roof. 
Asat Martock, and St. Mary’s, Oxford, niches are intro- 
duced among the supports of the roof, but the peculiar 
manner of their treatment differs widely from those ex- 
amples. There they are placed in the clerestory range ; 
here they come immediately above the piers, and support 
the alternate shafts of the roof, the others rising from the 
tops of the arches. 
Two other very fine churches in Norwich, St. Andrew 
and St. Stephen, should be studied in connexion with 
the Bristol homonym of the latter. It may be remembered 
that I extolled that church as possessing some of the finest 
arcades in existence, but remarked that their effeet was 
much marred by the poor clerestory and the awkward way 
in which the window-sills were brought down to the arch, 
so as to form a kind of flat pilaster above the piers. Here 
the space is filled up with panelling, according to the manner 
I have already described. Both these churches have four- 
centred pier-arches, but the piers are widely different ; 
St. Andrew has the common form, only no shafts run up 
to the roof, whose supports are corbelled off just below the 
elerestory windows. St. Stephen has a singular modifi- 
cation of the octagonal form, with a kind of elustered 
shaft at each angle. Both these churches are of late 
