DUNSTER PRIORY CHURCH. 13 
buttress, pinnacle, or niche. The west end ofthe south aisle, 
too, not reaching quite to the same level as that of the 
nave,-increases the effeet of irregularity, while it adds 
nothing in point of pieturesque effect. Yet the general 
view of Dunster church, even from the south-west, is by 
no means unsatisfactory; its general outline, with the ex- 
ception of the actual west end, is pleasing, though it has 
little to offer on the score of strietly architectural excellence. 
The conventual buildings at Dunster lay on the north 
side of the church, but there is not very much to be made 
out, and the church is so enveloped with private houses 
and gardens that the enquiry is for the most part diflicult, 
if not impossible. There appears to have been a small 
cloister in the angle between the nave and the north aisle, 
and attached to this, to the west, is a building, part probably 
of the Prior’s lodgings, which retains a square-headed Per- 
pendieular window. The monastie dove-cot, a very good 
specimen, retaining a wooden medisval door, remains 
among the farm-buildings to the north ofthe church. The 
barn also struck me as the old one tampered with, though 
I must confess that I did not examine it quite so minutely 
as I ought. 
The above is the best account of Dunster Priory that I 
have been able to pnt together under very unfavourable 
eircumstances. Had I been in my usual health and spirits, 
I doubt not but that I might have produced something 
much better. I trust, however, that my general theory of 
the character and history of the building may be found 
accurate and satisfactory ; on minuter points I would not 
be understood as dogmatizing with the same confidence as 
on other occasions. 
Besides the Priory and the Castle, Dunster contains one 
