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Perpendieular is most incontestable. I have often* already 
remarked the great beauty of the Perpendieular tracery in 
Somerset, chiefly of the Alternate variety, or, better still, 
the Alternate combined with the Supermullioned. In 
employing these forms, the Somersetshire style is true to 
its general character of thorough Continuity, while retain- 
ing much of the most pleasing features of the earlier styles. 
In Norfolk, on the other hand, I saw very few fully devel- 
oped Perpendieular windows of any real merit. This I 
attribute to the fact, which I think is evident, that Flowing 
tracery stood its ground in that region far longer than in 
most parts of England, certainly far longer than in Somer- 
setshire. This practice I conceive to be an instance of the 
tendeney to approximate to the continental Flamboyant, 
which I have already mentioned as characteristic of the 
East-Anglian Perpendicular. It is not unusual to find 
windows of good Flowing tracery of a date evidently far 
advanced in the Perpendicular period. Such is the case in 
the clerestory and both towersof Wymondham. Still more 
remarkably is this the case in the tower of St. Margaret’s in 
Norwich, where the belfry-windows are of pure Divergent 
tracery, and in the elerestory of St. Gregory, where they 
are alternately Divergent and of a rich variety of Reticu- 
lated. It is remarkable that in these cases we should find 
such elaborate tracery in the clerestories and towers, where, 
even during the strietly Flowing period, it was, as f Mr. 
Paley has observed, except in very large buildings, but 
very sparingly employed. 
But the distinetive characteristic of Norfolk tracery is 
the extraordinary prevalence of forms intermediate between 
Flowing and Perpendieular, sometimes strietly transitional, 
* Essay on Window Tracery, pp. 189, 193. 
+ Gothie Architeeture,p.107. See Essay on Window Tracery, p.257. 
