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ON SOME ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE (licular work also, but they are more com- mon in Early Eng- lish. Another contriv- ance for strengthen-, ins: thewestwallwhen it carries the bell, is to throw an arch across it from but- tress to buttress, either in the interior, as at Strixton, Nor- thamptonshire, or on the exterior, as at St. Helen's, (12) and St.Michael-le-Belfry, (13) York; thefkstof these carries a sort of lantern bell-turret ; the second has the bell -cot destroyed, but the corbels of it remain, and nowcarry a modern wooden structure for the same purpose. The wooden pigeon - house bell- cots, so common in juany parts of Eng- land, seem to have been in some cases the successors of ear- lier wooden structures of the same kind ; in other cases they have taken the place of the stone bell-gables above mentioned. There is yet an- other class of bell- cots, less common 1?. St. Micbaelle-Belfry, York, 11 Godsliill, Is'.eofWiSli