narrow, that they resemble the loop-holes of a dungeon rather than the windows of a church.  In each of the lateral compartments was likewise originally a door-way, and above it a single window, all of the same Norman style, but all now blocked up.  These compartments are surmounted with short towers, capped with conical spires.  The towers appear from their style and masonry to be nearly coeval with the lower part of the building, though not altogether so:  the southern is somewhat the most modern.  They are, however, so entirely dissimilar in plan from the rest of the front, that we cannot readily admit that they are a portion of the original design.  Nor are they even like to each other.  Both of them are square at their bases, and preserve this form to a sufficient height to admit of two tiers of narrow windows, separated from each other by little more than a simple string-course.  Above these windows both become octagon, and continue so to the top; but in a very different manner.  The northern one has obtuse angles, imperfectly defined; the southern has four projecting buttresses and four windows, alternating with each other.  The form of the windows and their arrangement, afford farther marks of distinction.  The octagon part is in both turrets longer than the square, but, like it, divided into two stories.

The central tower of the church, which was large and square, is now reduced to a fragment:  three of its sides are gone; the western remains sufficiently perfect to shew what the whole was when entire.  It contained a double tier of arches, the lower consisting of two, which were large and simple, the upper of three, divided by central shafts and masonry, so that each formed a double window.  All of them were circular-headed, but so far differed from the architecture of the nave, that they had side-pillars with capitals.

The church[15] was entered by a long narrow porch.—­The nave is a fine specimen of Norman architecture, but is remarkable in that style for one striking peculiarity, that the eight wide circular arches on either side, which separate it from the aisles, are alternately supported by round pillars and square piers; the latter having semi-cylindrical columns applied to each of their sides.  The capitals are ornamented with rude volutes.  The arches in the triforium are of nearly the same width as those below, but considerably less in height.  There is no archivolt or moulding or ornament.  Above these there is only one row of windows, which, like all the rest, are semi-circular headed; but they have neither angular pillars, nor mouldings, nor mullions.  These windows are rather narrow externally, but within the opening enlarges considerably.  The windows in the upper and lower tiers stand singly:  in the intermediate row they are disposed by threes, the central one separated from the other two by a single column.—­The inside of the nave is striking from its simplicity:  it is wholly of the eleventh century, except the reparations already mentioned, which were made in 1688.—­The choir and Lady-Chapel are nearly demolished; and only some fragments of them are now standing:  they were of pointed architecture, and posterior to the nave by at least two centuries.