ARCHITECTURE ECCLESIASTICAL 121 style, I admit, but not to the extent to which they are carried in Cornwall. Besides this, the general form of a Cornish church is plain ; externally, the plan of the larger ones is a parallelogram, divided into three low ridges of roof: there is a porch on the south side; this is the only break in the horizontal line I allude to. The smaller churches have generally but one aisle, and these have a Launceston Church transept also, but sometimes two transepts ; but even these do not relieve the plainness of the exterior. This is not the character of one church, or two, or three ; but more or less of all. It is their character, and I attribute it to the boisterous nature of the climate in that narrow county, exposed as it is, with very little shelter, to violent storms from the sea on both sides."
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