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or two other architectural remains of some value. The old 
Market Hall can, indeed, hardly be called in strietness a 
work of architecture, but its pieturesque effect is about as 
perfect as may be. But the Luttrell Arms Inn contains 
some portions worthy of more detailed examination. There 
is a good Perpendicular porch, on each side of which may 
be discerned some defensive preparations, which seem to 
imply the possibility of mine host—if hostelry it were from 
the beginning—being called upon to stand a siege npon his 
own premises. Within are some good einquecento chimney- 
pieces and other ornamental work; there is also, in a rather 
out-of-the-way part, where the visitor will have to look for 
it, some effective, though rather coarse, Perpendicular 
wood-work, two ranges of windows namely, with inter- 
mediate panelling. 
I may also mention that in going up one of the hills out 
of the town, nearly westward from the church, I observed 
what appeared to be an ancient well or conduit. 
Of other churches in the neighbourhood, I have never 
seen many, and Minehead is the only one which I have 
been able to revisit on the present occasion. What I had 
to say about its tower, as well as St. Decumans, I said in 
a former paper, but the church itself may deserve a few 
words of notice. It is not a building of any great size or 
magnificence, but it possesses some remarkable features, 
and it derives a certain amount of attractiveness from its 
striking position on the slope of the bold promontory which 
forms one of the grandest features of this side of the 
Bristol Channel. The church consists of a nave and north 
aisle, with a small chapel north of the latter at the east end, 
so that there are three eastern gables, producing a pic- 
turesque effect from the south-east. This north-east chapel 
