. Archaeologia cantiana. broad belt of ashlar,the plainness of which isrelieved by the singularlattice diaper* charac-teristic of certain por-tions of Ernulfs workat Canterbury, of whichfragments also remainin the later work ofthe nave at (Fig. 40.) The wholeof the work about thechapter-house entranceis of very rich character,now in a most woefulcondition and utterlyuncared for by its cus-todians. Such splendid work ought at the least to besheltered from the weather by a wooden pentice. The windows above are large and round-headed, withjamb shafts carrying a plain roll moulding. Bet
. Archaeologia cantiana. broad belt of ashlar,the plainness of which isrelieved by the singularlattice diaper* charac-teristic of certain por-tions of Ernulfs workat Canterbury, of whichfragments also remainin the later work ofthe nave at (Fig. 40.) The wholeof the work about thechapter-house entranceis of very rich character,now in a most woefulcondition and utterlyuncared for by its cus-todians. Such splendid work ought at the least to besheltered from the weather by a wooden pentice. The windows above are large and round-headed, withjamb shafts carrying a plain roll moulding. Between andbeyond the windows are four tall and shallow niches decoratedround the edge with a bold single zigzag line. The gablehas been destroyed. Below the windows are the remains ofthe corbels upon which rested the cloister roof. The chapter-house, which was so called because in it wasdaily read a chapter (capitulum) from the Rule of St. Bene- * This is not shewn in Thorpes engraving,f Archceologia Cantiana, XXIII. 218,. Fig. 40.—Lattice Diaper on Ernulfswork at Canterbury and Rochester. ST. ANDREW AT ROCHESTER. 37 diet, was a fine room, 64 feet long and 32\ feet wide, but itis now a roofless and uncared-for ruin, stripped of all its wall-area ding and laid out as a garden belonging to the 20 feet of its length is also curtailed by the intrusionof part of the Deanery itself, built within it about the middleof the eighteenth century, and it has been further encroachedon in recent years. The west end was occupied by the door-way and other openings described above, decorated as richlyas without, and with the lattice diaper on the wall whole bears strong marks of fire. The side walls and eastend were of plain stonework up to a height of about 6 feet, onaccount of the benches upon which the monks sat in chapterbeing built against them. Above this height the wall wasset back 7 inches to form a ledge, on which stood a continu-ous arcade of twenty-four arche
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