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ous apartments of Winchester Cathedral, then the church of St. 

 Cross, next St. Mary's (both at or near Winchester), afterwards 

 Durham Cathedral, and, lastly, Westminster Abbey. Some pe- 

 culiarities which occurred in the transition from the one style 

 to the other deserve to be mentioned ; as they have not been 

 adopted in the pointed style, though they may frequently be 

 used in mixed buildings, for which this style is peculiarly cal- 

 culated. Among these are, 



1st, Long slender undiminishing columns, often under, and 

 selc >m above, six inches diameter ; placed sometimes in the 

 reccss,angles, at other times in the double angles made at pro- 

 minent corners, and often around columns, or upon piers, either 

 twisting ■ round them, or carried up perpendicularly, and pa- 

 rallel to each other. 



2dly, There is also a kind of pilaster in use, in some buildings 

 of this sort, as at Kelso, Jedburgh, &c. that may be introduced 

 into irregular buildings in this style with great advantage. 



The general effect of the Saxon Gothic style is intermediate 

 between the pointed and the Grecian. Its advantage over the 

 latter is, that it admits of columns smaller in proportion to their 

 height from their not being tapered ; hence there is a lightness 

 in the cathedral of Durham, which could not be effected in St. 

 Paul's, or in any cathedral strictly Grecian. 



