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of the Monks. No doubt the itinerant guilds were concerned in 

 its building, but the Monks, the learned people of the period, 

 were the moving spirit in the various additions. 



The second group, consisting of St. Sampson's, the Catel and 

 St. Martin's, bears little or no trace of these itinerant guilds, the 

 building being rude and relying more on mere strength, such as 

 would be found among ignorant peasants, rather than on well 

 designed and well thought outarcading and other details. 



The third group consists of the four distant churches, and 

 the nearer pair, the Forest and St. Andrew's, bear less traces of 

 what we should now call the professional touch and more of the 

 amateur than the two more distant churches, St. Peter's-in-the- 

 Wood and St. Saviour's, which are the nearest approach to the 

 fine craftsmanship of the Town Church to be found. 



It is true that the south porch of St. Martin's Church has 

 finer workmanship than any other country church, but this is an 

 appendage and not a part of the main structure. 



Notes on the Architectural Details. 



I will now pass over the points which struck me as regards 

 the details. 



I. — External. 



I dealt with the general building in the former section, and 

 next in importance and more visible are the spires. We can 

 classify the churches into three groups according to the class of 

 spire and tower they bear. 



The first group is that of St. Sampson's whose saddle pack 

 tower is the only specimen in the Island. 



The second group is the Vale, Catel, St. Martin's and the 

 Forest, (it will be noted how the Town is encircled), who each 

 have an octagonal stump covered with brown cement, and all 

 have at the angles of the main tower spirelets in the splay of 

 the octagon. The same taste can also be seen in Jersey, and the 

 brown cement causes me to suspect that the Architect of St. 

 James' Church and Elizabeth College — Mr. J. Wilson — was 

 responsible for the covering of the spires of this group. 



There is the third group which, as in the case of the 

 churches bearing the craftsman's touch, stood far away in the 

 country, and had square towers of stone with or without spires, 

 viz., St. Peter's-in-the-Wood, St. Saviour's and St. Andrew's. 



