Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . ave, iscomposed of two arches, each one of which is subdivided into twoby a slender column, and adorned with a quatrefoil. sThe cleres-tory windows above the triforium are of unusual size and form;they are triangles, made by lines curved outwards, and wereoriginally filled with three circles, which have since been double row of the dog-toothed moulding round every greaterarch of the triforium, another round their architraves, another onthe strong course under the clerestory, and a
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . ave, iscomposed of two arches, each one of which is subdivided into twoby a slender column, and adorned with a quatrefoil. sThe cleres-tory windows above the triforium are of unusual size and form;they are triangles, made by lines curved outwards, and wereoriginally filled with three circles, which have since been double row of the dog-toothed moulding round every greaterarch of the triforium, another round their architraves, another onthe strong course under the clerestory, and another round thewindows of it, give to the nave a richly decorated character,without appearing to be overloaded with ornament. We come now to the transept, the vaulting of which is nearlythe same with that of the nave, but it has no side aisles, notriforium, and the windows are all of perpendicular to the north and south very large, but, like all the others inthis portion of the Cathedral, ill-shaped, disproportioned, andfilled with very ordinary tracery. The four large piers which. Drawn bv 1H. Shepherd. IKll i i iin < I i 111. hit I i support the central tower, with their numerous slenderadorned with leaf) capitals, and bound with three roi of flllihave here a fine effect The choir is entered under the organ loft, and ii remarkablefor its great length and oarrowne • and this original deflbeen since increased by throwing the Lady Chapel into it: of thisall antiquaries and architects loudly complain, w hen thU me, the arohea of the choir were built up with plain walls, flush withthe inner tact* of the arches, making the choir a flat surface on eachside, which made it appear still narrower, hut thifl great disfigure-ment has been removed, and the wall re-erected farther Lack, hywhich the columns and arches of the choir are again risible withinit. The aisles of the choir are similar to those of the nave,adorned with an arcade of pointed arches, resting o
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