. Walks in London . SSx in the thirteenth and fourteenthcenturies) the great feature is the beautiful double door of theChapter House. The mouldings of the outer arch are deco-rated with ten small figures on either side, in niches formedby waving foliage, of which the stem springs from thelowest figure—probably Jesse. The tympanum is coveredwith exquisite scroll-work, terribly injured by time, and hasa mutilated statue of the Virgin and Child, with angelson either side. 35* WALKS IN LONDON. In this wall, just to the south of the entrance of theChapter House, is the iron-bound entrance to the A
. Walks in London . SSx in the thirteenth and fourteenthcenturies) the great feature is the beautiful double door of theChapter House. The mouldings of the outer arch are deco-rated with ten small figures on either side, in niches formedby waving foliage, of which the stem springs from thelowest figure—probably Jesse. The tympanum is coveredwith exquisite scroll-work, terribly injured by time, and hasa mutilated statue of the Virgin and Child, with angelson either side. 35* WALKS IN LONDON. In this wall, just to the south of the entrance of theChapter House, is the iron-bound entrance to the AncientTreasury of the Kings of England. It is a double door openedby six keys, and till lately could only be unlocked by aspecial order from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury—the permission of the Secretary of the Treasury, theChancellor of the Exchequer, and the Comptroller of the. Chapel of the Pyx, Westminster. Exchequer is still said to be required. The chamber thusmysteriously guarded, generally known now as the Chanelof the Pyx * is the most remarkable remnant we possess ofthe original abbey. It occupies the second and third baysof the Confessors work beneath the Dormitory. The earlyNorman pillar in the centre (Saxon in point of date) has • I he Pyx is the box in which the specimen pieces are kept at the Mint—piiisfrom P3XOS a box-tree. THE CHAPEL OF THE PYX, 353 a cylindrical shaft, 3 ft. 6 in. in diameter and 3 ft. 4 The capital has a great unmouldcd abacus, 7 , supported by a primitive moulding, and carryingplain groining in the square transverse ribs. It is interest-ing to see how during the Norman period the massivesimplicity of this, as of other capitals, seems to havetempted the monks to experiments of rude sculpture, hereincomplete. The ancient stone altar remains. The flooris littered with heavy iron-bound chests—some of themv
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