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the choir and the presbytery than between the nave and 
the choir, separating the latter only by a screen, but the, 
former by an architectural member. 
The parish church has an aisle on each side, but not only 
does the southern one extend much further to the west 
than its northern fellow, but the arcades do not correspond 
with each other as far as they go. The four arches on the 
north side are perceptibly narrower than the six on the 
south. Consequently the roodloft erosses the church in a 
singular manner, passing close to a pillar on one side, but 
not on the other.* The pillars approach nearer to ordinary 
Somersetshire forms than those of the conventual church. 
They are of the common Somersetshire section, with 
capitals to the attached shafts only, but these capitals are 
octagonal, and not round, which last, I need not say, is the 
form most distinctive of the county. 
The general effect of this part of the church, though it 
does not altogether lack dignity either within or without, 
is gloomy and heavy, owing to its extreme width and low- 
ness. Nothing can be conceived in more complete contrast 
to the aspiring forms of Wrington and Banwell, than this 
long, low, unclerestoried mass. But its greatest failure is at 
the west end. What a falling off is here from the splendours 
of Yatton and Crewkerne! The north aisle not being 
prolonged to the full extent westward, the west end is 
irregular and lopsided, and no care whatever appears 
to have been bestowed upon it. There is simply the 
broad, heavy gable of the nave, containing the west 
window and doorway—the former well-proportioned in 
itself, though hardly suiting its position—-unrelieved by 
* Similarly, in Dursley Church, Gloucestershire, the arcades on the two 
sides do not correspond, so that, as there is neither screen nor chancel-arch, 
it is Impossible to say at what point the choir commences. 
