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to decide from what point it can be seen to 

 the greatest advantage. Such is the happiness 

 of its situation, that on all sides it presents a 

 beautiful object. We think, however, that it 

 looks best from certain parts of the Sudbury 

 road; but that notion has been frequently 

 shaken when we have seen it in the distance, 

 on a summer's evening, when returning from 

 a fishing excursion to Norbury or to Calwich. 

 Generally speaking, the different western 

 points are the most favourable to view it from. 

 It is, considering the smallness of the town, a 

 spacious edifice. Its body is cruciform. It 

 has a square central tower, surmounted by a 

 light, lofty, and elegantly-ornamented octagonal 

 ^gjB, pierced with twenty windows. The 

 style of its architecture, is the early English, 

 but extremely modified by an intermixture of 

 alterations and decorations of a later date. 

 The piers and arches of the nave are fine, and 

 bear the characteristics of the early English 

 style. The same may be said of the chancel, 

 which has a high window on the east, and two 

 stone-stalls. The windows of the north tran- 

 sept are decorated ; there is but one window, 

 perpendicular and of large dimensions, in the 

 south transept. The door-ways, which are 

 numerous, are of the early English style, and 

 are in good repair. In truth, the whole exterior 



