. The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;. own-ish stone now gives a prevailing hue to the chapel, but in medi-aeval times the coloring was brighter, as is shown by remains ofancient painting in the mouldings. While all the pomp andaltars of the ancient worship have long since disappeared, oneobject appropriately keeps its place, a very large slab of plaingray slate covering a flat tomb, on which in large letters arethe words, Hac Sunt in Fossa Bedse Venerabilis Ossa. Here,in one of the oldest, calmest ecclesiastical nooks in the coun-try, sleeps its primitive monkish chronicler. Th
. The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;. own-ish stone now gives a prevailing hue to the chapel, but in medi-aeval times the coloring was brighter, as is shown by remains ofancient painting in the mouldings. While all the pomp andaltars of the ancient worship have long since disappeared, oneobject appropriately keeps its place, a very large slab of plaingray slate covering a flat tomb, on which in large letters arethe words, Hac Sunt in Fossa Bedse Venerabilis Ossa. Here,in one of the oldest, calmest ecclesiastical nooks in the coun-try, sleeps its primitive monkish chronicler. The transept, while in the same style as the nave, has amore varied or irregular design. Besides Norman features,there are tall, Pointed windows at each end containing coloredglass, and in the central tower, which is open to a height of155 feet, there is a sharply acute vault above four other loftytraceried Perpendicular windows. The choir has many of the general features of the nave, butis less ornamented, with the exception of the vaulting, which is. DURHAM, THE uALILEE. DURHAM. 225 Decorated (1289-1307), and of course has Pointed arches, onwhich the ribs are bold, and are enriched with carvings. Theminor features, that, however, are of great importance as com-bined, are of unusual beauty and elaboration. A new andsplendid screen (1877) at the west end, designed by Sir G. , is of bold and rich design, and does not interfere withthe view from west to east. It has three large trifoiled openarches and a central gable of polished, veined, reddish alabas-ter, borne on clustered pillars of dark-greenish native marble,also polished. Another, much higher and still more elaboratescreen, dating from about 1380, and forming the reredos, is ofCaen stone, and was made in London or Paris. Mr. Billingssays that it is perhaps the most remarkable in the kingdom,either as regards magnitude or richness of detail. Above abase, it shows a range of lofty niches crowned by still loftierand ric
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