Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . lowing and featheredpanelling, round each compartment of the cloister where the win-dows are, has a very good effect. To the south of the cloister, and contiguous to it, is the oldrefectory, or college hall, a spacious and lofty room 120 feet longand 38 broad; part of it is nowr appropriated to the kings school,and has been often used for the music meetings of the three choirs,Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford. The chapter house, though externally it has ten sides, yetwithin appears nearly
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . lowing and featheredpanelling, round each compartment of the cloister where the win-dows are, has a very good effect. To the south of the cloister, and contiguous to it, is the oldrefectory, or college hall, a spacious and lofty room 120 feet longand 38 broad; part of it is nowr appropriated to the kings school,and has been often used for the music meetings of the three choirs,Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford. The chapter house, though externally it has ten sides, yetwithin appears nearly circular. The vaulting is very plain, andsprings from a cylindrical pillar in the centre, with plain capitaland base, and rests on the walls all round. A plain semicylindricalrib, springing from the centre column, and resting on a plain shortcolumn in the wall, divides the vaulting into ten compartments. Astone seat goes all round the chapter house, with round-headedniches at the back ; above these is an arcade of interlacing semicir-cular arches, and above this, again, are the windows, which have. \ . \:\: Transepts ( Chair I) Zady Chapel E E Choir Transepts 1 Chapter Room (i Cloisters II TSngs s<lir,<l 1 Principal Entrance K Sum II Chapel Robing Roonu M Stone Pulpit X Monument to I\in</ John o Prince . trtkurs Chantry P Altar
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