The following may be. said to be the marked features
.belonging' to this class:— . , ...If



Saxon Strcfjitrrture. 443

The execution is rude and coarse : the vails are built
either of rag or rubble, some-
times partly of herring-bone
work, without buttresses, and
in many cases, if not always,
have been plastered on the out-
side ; the quoins are usually of
hewn stones placed alternately
flat and on end, a kind of con-
struction to which the name
"long and »hort" has been
given: an example of this is
shewn very clearly in the tower
of St. Michael's Church, Oxford.
