ingenuity which their works always exhibit in adapting material to constructive necessity, exercised considerable influence in this respect also. A rude piece of rock, forming naturally an irregular polygon, might become too small by being reduced to a square or an octagon; and if this had been procured with some labour and delay, it was better to humour its perverse tendencies, and to let it retain its original form with little alteration, than to spoil or reject it. Hence perhaps, though allowing somewhat for occasional caprice, we meet with the following anomalous varieties. DODECAGON. Meppershall & Warden, Beds." Patrington, Yorkshire. DECAGON. Gravenhurst & Tingrith, Beds." HEPTAGON. Chaddesden, Derbyshire. Elmeswell, Suffolk. Bowden Magna, Leicestershire. Bowden Mayne, Lincolnshire. HEXAGON. Ramsey, Hunts, (Norman). Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Helmsley, Yorkshire. Carlisle Cathedral. IIEXAGON (continued). Kegworth, Leicestershire. Bredon, Leicestershire. Playford, Suffolk. Lavenham, Suffolk, Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire. Dadlington, Suffolk. Heckington, Lincolnshire.. Ewerby, Lincolnshire. Brandeston, Suffolk, Outwell, Norfolk. Rolvenden, Kent. Hardwick, Northamptonshire. Minster Lovel, Oxon. PENTAGON. Hollington, Sussex. Farringdon, Berks. Bredon, Worcester. Tickhill, Yorkshire. 20 OVAL. Brington, Hants. It is probable that the Hexagon was considered a "Lyson's Magna Britannia, vol. i. p. 32.
