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individual benefactor. At Monkton, in Pembrokeshire, 
and at Howden, the eastern portion remains, but roofless ; 
at Arundel, at Ewenny in Glamorganshire, and at Dunster, 
it remains, and retains its roof, but is otherwise in a con- 
dition than which a well-preserved ruin is incomparably 
less offensive. 
The general effect of Dunster church I have alluded to 
more than once in other papers. It is a long, low, irregular 
cruciform building, with its external architecture wholly 
Perpendicular, of a plain and in no way striking kind. 
Even externally its very peculiar arrangement suggests 
itself. East of the central tower, on whose character I 
commented some years back, is evidently the choir, or mo- 
nastic church ; west of it stretehes a nave of unusual length. 
Now, at some little distance west of the tower, you will 
see one of those side-turrets which are the never-failing 
sign of a grand Somersetshire roodscreen, stretching across 
the whole width of the church, both nave and aisles. On 
entering, you find the transept and the whole space east 
of the tower cut off and disused ; the altar is under the 
western arch of the tower; and some way to the west, as 
was suggested by the external turret, one of the noblest 
roodlofts in Somersetshire stretehes across both nave and 
aisles. That this is no modern arrangement is proved both 
by the turret and by the general proportion and arrange- 
ment of the whole. The fact is that Dunster church com- 
prises, in every sense, two churches. The priory church, 
east of the tower, remains disused, having been most 
probably spared from entire destruction on account of the 
monuments which it contains. The parish church remains, 
bating pews and such like, just as it was—a distmet 
church, west of the tower, so thoroughly distinet as to 
have not only its own altar, but its own clearly-marked 
