The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . is curious that this method of carrying the wateraway from the upper roofs over the lower ones should nothave been adopted when the parapets were put up. The outer wall of the choir aisle is one of the mostinteresting portions of the building, from an archgeological aswell as an architectural standpoint. It shows three of thearched heads of small twelfth-century windows that used tolight the earlier triforium gallery. One of these has now afifteenth-century insertion beneath
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . is curious that this method of carrying the wateraway from the upper roofs over the lower ones should nothave been adopted when the parapets were put up. The outer wall of the choir aisle is one of the mostinteresting portions of the building, from an archgeological aswell as an architectural standpoint. It shows three of thearched heads of small twelfth-century windows that used tolight the earlier triforium gallery. One of these has now afifteenth-century insertion beneath it. This is in the secondbay from the transept. It is a small window with a cuspedhead and a square label-mould above it. In the same area ofwalling there are shown the levels of the cut string-course thatran along under the sills of the twelfth-century aisle is the same string and at the same level as it appears uponthe south-west angle of the transept and the south-west towerof the west front. It shows, too, in the second bay, the level ofthe old abaci which ran across from each capital in the window. i. B. Bu/as e- Co. pholo. THE CHOIR AND CENTRAL TOWER FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. 68 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. jambs and stopped against the sides of the buttresses. Thereis also the continuous chamfer course that ran along thewalls above the heads of these aisle windows. In proof ofthese things there is even now one of these same old windowsin almost its original state within the little chamber known asthe priest-vicars vestry. This window is in the bay of aislewalling immediately against the transept wall. The string-courses of the old windows were continued round the laterbuttresses. In the fourth bay, above the point of the windowarch, the curve of the original apse of the ambulatory isjust traceable; but beyond this point eastwards the twelfth-century walling has disappeared until we meet it again in thelady-chapel. There is a small buttress in the fourth baymarking the ju
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