NOTES ON MOORLAND CHURCHES. 189 
Chagford, these doorways are to be found chiefly in the west walls 
of the towers. There are two at Chagford. The Rev. Samuel 
Rowe describes the one at Manaton as of almost Cyclopean 
character, and round-headed. This is not so. All these arches 
are two-centred and pointed. Both jamb and arch-stones are 
double-chamfered on the outer edge. The former are about 21 feet 
wide by 31 feet high, and the latter about a foot and a half wide 
by 44 feet long. 
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West Doorway, Manaton Church. 
One can imagine how the masons of the different parishes vied 
with each other in the construction of these massive doorways, 
and what rivalry there was as to the sizes of the stones, and the 
accuracy of the working; how Chagford would boast that Bovey 
doorway ‘‘bain’t so big as ourn by six inches in length, by two in 
width,” or vice versa. That such emulation existed even in this 
out-of-the-world district there can be no doubt. 
The little church of Buckland-in-the-Moor is chiefly remarkable 
for the beauty of its situation, and for the good proportions and 
somewhat quaint design of its tower, which is Decorated, and of 
