The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . SaintEdward the Confessor. It has already been stated that the Choir extends across the transept tothe fourth column, westward, of the nave: on the east its extremity is boundedby the screen of St. Edwards Chapel, at the back of the altar-piece, whicbcrosses the area at the second column from the central tower. Seven greatarches on each side, (inclosed by modern wainscotting to about half the heightof the supporting columns) with a ro
The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . SaintEdward the Confessor. It has already been stated that the Choir extends across the transept tothe fourth column, westward, of the nave: on the east its extremity is boundedby the screen of St. Edwards Chapel, at the back of the altar-piece, whicbcrosses the area at the second column from the central tower. Seven greatarches on each side, (inclosed by modern wainscotting to about half the heightof the supporting columns) with a row of double arches above, and a rangeof upper windows, separate it from the other divisions of the Church. Thearchitecture, though nearly corresponding throughout, is sufficiently variedto shew the exact points where Henry the Thirds building terminated, andthatof Edward, his son, commenced : this was at the first column, westward,from the central tower. In the work of Edwards reign, the shafts which sur-round the larger columns are not encircled by rows of fillets, like those ofHenrys reign, but every alternate one has had a metal cap introduced instead,. INTERIOR OF THE CHOIR. 37 at the same heights as the fillets: the mouldings also, both of the greaterand the lesser arches, are different, and other minute variations may be tracedin divers places*. Henrys building includes the whole eastern part of theChurch to the first column west from the transept; from thence, Edwardextended it to the second column of the Nave. The large columns of the Choir are of different descriptions: those tothe westward of the tower are each surrounded by eight shafts, four of whichare detached, but the others are wrought out of the main substance of thecolumns themselves. The piers of the tower also, which are of immensemagnitude, are each surrounded by sixteen shafts wrought out of the mainstones; but. the columns more eastward are encircled by four shafts only; allwhich are detached, excepting a
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