The crypt at Lastingham is not of Saxon date, but its Norman successor. The original church was destroyed by the Danes. Its foundation I have already noticed. The most numerous of the Anglo-Saxon remains are the bell-towers. These have almost always the peculiar characteristics which I have already noticed. Their number is so great that it would be impossible to enter into any enumeration of them. One of the best known, perhaps, is that of St. Benet’s, Cambridge. It has pilaster strips up each angle, with long and short work. The string-courses are merely square courses: each storey recedes a little in width. The belfry windows are double, divided by a mid-wall baluster and bracket; and there are plain windows again over their spandrels. The intermediate surfaces were plastered. The tower arch is of strangely rude design. The tower of Trinity Church, Colchester, is peculiar, as being, to a great extent, of Roman brick.[11] (Fig. 225). [Illustration: Fig. 224.--St. Benet’s, Cambridge.] Earls Barton tower is the most remarkable of its class, uniting the profuse use of pilaster strips, diagonal strips, arched strips, long and short work, baluster columns, and other characteristics of the style (Fig. 226). I have noticed here that the majority of the arches are so in form rather than in construction, some being cut out of the solid, some built up with horizontal courses projecting one over the other, and others, again, formed by a number of flat stones set on edge one behind another, and the arched opening cut through them all. Barnach Tower is something like it, though with less variety,--a more Cyclopean look.[12] (Fig. 228). [Illustration: Fig. 225.--Tower, Trinity Church, Colchester.] The tower at Barton-upon-Humber bears considerable resemblance to that of Earls Barton, though with less profusion of the usual characteristics and less rudeness of construction. This tower is rendered remarkable by having attached to it a very large and lofty western porch, apparently of about the same date (Fig. 227). Among the most remarkable towers, however, is that at Sompting, in Sussex (Fig. 229). Its most striking characteristic is, that its sides are each gabled, and it is roofed like the typical steeples on the Rhine. I am told that an instance of this also existed at Flixton, in Suffolk. The details at Sompting are somewhat elaborate. [Illustration: Fig. 226.--Tower, Earls Barton.] [Illustration: Fig. 227.--Tower and Western Porch, Barton-upon-Humber.] The tower of Clapham Church, in Bedfordshire, is chiefly remarkable for its great height and plainness. The chancel arch, of great simplicity, here remains, as did one window of the chancel (a small bonnet-arched opening like some in the tower itself) till destroyed recently by a stupid builder.