Fig. 224.—St. Benet’s, Cambridge.
Earls Barton tower is the most remarkable of its class, uniting the profuse use of pilaster strips, diagonal strips, arched strips, long and short work, baluster columns, and other characteristics of the style ([Fig. 226]). I have noticed here that the majority of the arches are so in form rather than in construction, some being cut out of the solid, some built up with horizontal courses projecting one over the other, and others, again, formed by a number of flat stones set on edge one behind another, and the arched opening cut through them all.
Barnach Tower is something like it, though with less variety,—a more Cyclopean look.[12] ([Fig. 228]).
Fig. 225.—Tower, Trinity Church, Colchester.
The tower at Barton-upon-Humber bears considerable resemblance to that of Earls Barton, though with less profusion of the usual characteristics and less rudeness of construction. This tower is rendered remarkable by having attached to it a very large and lofty western porch, apparently of about the same date ([Fig. 227]).
Among the most remarkable towers, however, is that at Sompting, in Sussex ([Fig. 229]). Its most striking characteristic is, that its sides are each gabled, and it is roofed like the typical steeples on the Rhine. I am told that an instance of this also existed at Flixton, in Suffolk. The details at Sompting are somewhat elaborate.