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We ınay therefore suppose that Dunster church, up to 
the end of the fifteenth century, consisted of a Norman 
nave and aisles, a massive lantern tower at the crossing, 
forming the ritual choir, an eastern limb without aisles, but 
with small chapels or apses attached to the transepts. 
The two portions, the parochial and the monastic, were 
brought into close juxtaposition, and were doubtless only 
separated by ascreen. It was now determined to recon- 
struct the whole pile in such a way as to make the most 
marked division between them, and, in fact, to convert the 
building into two distinet churches. 
It will here be desirable to refer to two somewhat ana- 
logous cases elsewhere, which may help to elucidate the 
prineiple on which this was effected. The one is the abbey 
church of Wymondham in Norfolk, which forms the sub- 
jeet of an admirable monograph by Mr. Petit, in the 
Norwich volume of the Proceedings of the Institute ; the 
other is the collegiate church of Ruthin in Denbighshire, 
illustrated by myself in a late number of the Arch»ologia 
Cambrensis. At Wymondham, as at Dunster, the monks 
and the people quarrelled about the possession of the 
church, and eventually compromised the matter by literally 
cutting it in two. The monks took the eastern, the parish 
the western portion, and the monks erected a tower be- 
tween the two. This tower was not a mere central lan- 
tern, but a real western tower to their own church, having 
a dead wall towards the parish church, pierced only by 
two small doorways. The parishioners subsequently built 
an immense tower at Zheir west end, so that, as the monas- 
tic portion is now in ruins, the parish church stands with a 
tower at each end. 
At Ruthin, a church of the fourteenth century, the plan 
adopted from the beginning was somewhat analogous to 
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