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Rh claim their purpose as clearly as the old Norman apses, and yield to them only in picturesque effect.

In other cases, we sometimes find additions of various kinds to the west of the transept, as in Waltham Abbey, and Wedmore, Somerset; or sometimes the transept itself is made double, as at Oakham: but though these arrangements were, doubtless, prompted by the same desire of obtaining additional sites for altars, they hardly come within the scope of my present subject.

The arrangement of which I have drawn up this slight sketch, is one on which every observer will always be prepared with his own examples, I have thought it better, whenever I could, to draw mine rather from smaller churches