PERPENDICULAR OF SOMERSET AND EAST-ANGLIA. 25 
ROOFS. 
The East-Anglian roofs are, as every one knows, among 
the noblest and most characteristic features of the district, 
and perhaps that in which the contrast is most marked 
between them and their Somersetshire rivals.. But somehow 
or other, I never feel so much at home in dealing with 
structures of wood as when I keep myself safe among stone 
and mortar. I cannot eriticize these roofs with anything 
like the same facility and satisfaction as I can the arcades 
or the window-tracery. Besides, I know that the finest 
roofs are in Suffolk and not in Norfolk, and of Suffolk 
roofs I have only seen one, St. Mary’s at Bury. The 
low-pitched tie-beanı roof, which is found everywhere, is 
found in the eastern counties also ; Walden, for instance, 
is a fine example ; but as the distinet roof of the west is 
the coved form, so the distinetive roof of the east is the 
high-pitched roof in various forms, of which the trefoil is 
the most distincetive of all, though to my mind very much 
better suited for a hall than for a church. That particular 
form of roof which in Somersetshire is seen confined to 
domestic buildings, but which, in central Wales and its 
Marches, extends to churches also—that 1 mean of which 
the hall of Lytes Cary is so grand an example, I did not 
see. But really I must leave the subject of ornamental 
carpentry to some one else, and devote the little space I 
have left to my own special branch of the department of 
ornamental masonry, the tracery of the windows. 
WINDOW TRACERY. 
This is certainly one of the points in which the superi- 
ority of the Somersetshire over the East-Anglian type of 
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