. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . (.lap. of North Tran-sept Aisle. o. WW | >- THE PRECINCTS AND RUINS OF THE PRIORY. 165 loffc. The original archways have also been lowered and narrowed in severalplaces as the work proceeded. All this, with the building up of the greatRose window in the North wall, which probably could never have been madesecure in any other way, suggests that the drawings of the plan, whichmust have looked very beautiful on parchment, as they do in Mr Billingsengravings, were found quite too airy and graceful for terrestrial laws whenthe attempt was made
. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . (.lap. of North Tran-sept Aisle. o. WW | >- THE PRECINCTS AND RUINS OF THE PRIORY. 165 loffc. The original archways have also been lowered and narrowed in severalplaces as the work proceeded. All this, with the building up of the greatRose window in the North wall, which probably could never have been madesecure in any other way, suggests that the drawings of the plan, whichmust have looked very beautiful on parchment, as they do in Mr Billingsengravings, were found quite too airy and graceful for terrestrial laws whenthe attempt was made to plant the plan in the substantial form of stone andlime. In the great archway at the Choir entrance there are to be seen some fainttraces of colour and design. We can still follow Mr Cordinei-s account of thebeautiful brilliancy of the frescoes there, as they were found by him lastcentury, though but for his guiding we might have some difficulty in verifyingthe impression of the now faint details:— The most plain and obvious of these(fresco paintings) is on the lofty arch o
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