The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ciently separated from the area by a complete stone Screenbeautifully executed in the Pointed style, but a large portion of the easternside has been long cut away to admit a new entrance of wood ; the originaldoorway which opened into the staircase leading to the Oratory over theChapel having been walled up*. This Screen consists, in the upright, oftwo principal divisions. The lowermost division is separated by buttressesinto three co
The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ciently separated from the area by a complete stone Screenbeautifully executed in the Pointed style, but a large portion of the easternside has been long cut away to admit a new entrance of wood ; the originaldoorway which opened into the staircase leading to the Oratory over theChapel having been walled up*. This Screen consists, in the upright, oftwo principal divisions. The lowermost division is separated by buttressesinto three compartments, viz. a low-arched doorway (leading to the staircase),with a bracket for a statue, and pannelled tracery above it; and two windows,each consisting of three ranges of pierced arches, rising from a pannelledbasement, with quatrefoils in squares beneath charged with roses and * In the accompanying print, viz. Plate XXIV, the Screen is represented as being wholly ofstone. In some Drawings on a Vellum Roll relating to Abbot Islip, now in the possession of theAntiquary Society, all the upper niches of the Screen are represented as containing figures,.
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