Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

I'JO LEOMINSTER CHURCH.
The base of a large window resfs upon the
chequered siring immediately over the door;
which is sadly injured ; but the parsimonious
repairers, with wooden materials, have left two
pillars on the sides, with capirals most exquilitely
designed, as Fig. i will amply evince. 1 he arch
of this window is femicircular without} and pointed
within the church; though it is not improbable
this second deviation may be the effect os preced-
ing repairs, particularly as there are two Saxon
pillars beyond the spring of the arch.
From the Hoped summits os the pilasters the
tower ascends in the Pointed style, with but-
tresses in the usual form in the angles, and two
ranges of windows, disfering from others merely
by the introduction of rows of arcades under and
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on the battlements.
The interior os this part of the church contains
two vast piers, that support the Eastern angles of
the tower, which are connected near the roof by
a high pointed arch ; and the first next the piers,
separating the North from the middle aile, is of
the same description. But the remainder are
semicircular, and spring from enormous circular
pillars, with sluted capitals. Over thole are
arcades, exactly of the Tuscan order; and each is
pierced into two smalier arches or windows, usually
called those of galleries. And immediately under
the