File:Sherborne Minster Willis 1865 07.jpg

English: Sherborne Abbey: View from the S transept looking into the nave. From: Willis, Robert (1865). "The architectural history of Sherborne Minster". Archaeological Journal 22: 179-199.
This last and most valuable sketch, made before the restorations were carried out, shows a stripe of Perpendicular panelling engrafted into the great Norman cylindrical shaft which occupies the south-east angle of the south- west tower-pier. It appears to have been the beginning of an• intended conversion of the whole surface of the pier into similar panelling, in the same manner as in the piers of the nave. This curious specimen was unfortunately destroyed when the pier was restored. I was informed that -the pier was in so ruinous a condition that it was necessary to underpin and almost rebuild it, and that the stripe was not replaced, because it was thought that it would give a slovenly and unfinished appearance to the renewed surface. Its value, as a piece of evidence to the gradual process of the conversion of this pier from one style to another, ought to have preserved it. As the joints and beds of the masonry are not indicated in this slight sketch, it is impossible to discover whether these panellings were constructed by simply cutting them in the Norman ashlar as it stood, or by removing the ashlar, stone by stone, and replacing it with new masonry. The stones which contained the arch-heads were, as it appears to me, necessarily new; but the vertical rectilinear mouldings and panel-surfaces might have been, and probably were, worked out of the Norman ashlar as it stood.