. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ury, Decorated passing into Ierjxn-dicidar. The tracery of its very beautiful south window is distinctlyDecorated ; for Bristol Cathedral teaches us that Decorated windowsmay be transomed. The clerestory windows {see fg. 20., ;;. 202)rimmed so very peculiarly with quatrefoils^—giving the appearanceof a window within a window—are again of Decorated characterpassing into Perpendicular. Further, we notice that thoughthe walls have been raised externally to range with the restof the chmch, yet, internally, the groining is s
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ury, Decorated passing into Ierjxn-dicidar. The tracery of its very beautiful south window is distinctlyDecorated ; for Bristol Cathedral teaches us that Decorated windowsmay be transomed. The clerestory windows {see fg. 20., ;;. 202)rimmed so very peculiarly with quatrefoils^—giving the appearanceof a window within a window—are again of Decorated characterpassing into Perpendicular. Further, we notice that thoughthe walls have been raised externally to range with the restof the chmch, yet, internally, the groining is some four orfive feet lower than the groining of the Nave and Choir-. Andlastly, we observe that the piers of this Transept, and one adjacentpier of the Nave, have their hase-motddings much lower than thoseof the rest of the church; and that these lower base-mouldmgs arecontinued in the responds of the South Aisle of the Nave, rightdown to the west end. 1 A window of like design may be seen in the side-aisle of St. MarksChurch, College Green. Transaotioxs at (Fig. 20.) Thus we arrive at the conchisiou that nearly the whole of theSouth Transept and the south wall of the Nave, belong to seme- Church of St. Maky Eedcliffe. 203 wliat older date than tlie rest of the body of the church. Here,tlien, may be wliat remains of that work of the times of tlie elderCanynges, of which our Mayors Calendar told us He built theCJliurch (it said) from the Cross-aisle downwards, at the close ofEdward reign. To a middle period, then, ranging over the whole of the four-teenth century, and s]ianned by the lives of Simon de Burton andthe elder William Canynges, may be ascribed the Belfry stage ofthe tower, the sumptuous outer Porch, the South Transept, anda Nave, of which the side wall and South Porch alone survive. If any one hesitates to give so early a date to the South Tran-sept I would him to compare the Bay shown in fig. 20with the Bays of the Decorated Choir of Lichfiel
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