. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. tinct from thoseoften found in the nave. It may possibly have received eventhe processional cross or the cross which Alcuin tells us wasplaced in this position on (lood IViday to be kissed by boththe clerics and the laity. The altar slab of grey sandstone and its supports of oak arenew. These are kept clear of the east wall, as there is apeculiar opening into Bishop Vaughans Chapel just description of this will be found on p. 62. On the floornear the altar and behind it are
. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. tinct from thoseoften found in the nave. It may possibly have received eventhe processional cross or the cross which Alcuin tells us wasplaced in this position on (lood IViday to be kissed by boththe clerics and the laity. The altar slab of grey sandstone and its supports of oak arenew. These are kept clear of the east wall, as there is apeculiar opening into Bishop Vaughans Chapel just description of this will be found on p. 62. On the floornear the altar and behind it are placed sundry altar slabsbrought from disused altars. One of these (to the south),being only 14^ inches by 9 inches, is let into a larger is marked with the usual quintette of crosses and seems tobe a picked piece of Caerfai stone in fine state, from which we Lib. Comm., vol. i., p. 15, nn. 1490. - Vide Appendix. ^ Vide Plan, at cud. ?» J. & F., p. 129. THE INTERIOR 43 may infer that it probably was used as an altare the history of St. David we read of one of these altar stones. rilK SlKKKN, ? K. SlUK. which was presented to him liy the Patriarch of suggests that this stone may have been a seal fora reiiquary or receptacle for altar relics, and if so, this one and Ihindhi) p. 147. 44 ST. DAVIDS CATHEDRAL that recently unearthed in the Jesus Chapel of NorwichCathedral are the only known ones extant. - The woodwork in the choir has many points of interest,notably the Parclose Screen, which is unique. It dividesthe presbytery and choir, and serves to emphasise the ancientthree-fold ritual arrangement of nave, choir, and considers the position of this screen very remarkablein this country at least, and the only churches with analo-gous indications that he can instance are Malmesbury andI)orchester. These divisions were usually well marked in largechurches, but not with an actual screen. In the middle of thefourteent
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