Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . north side of the NormanChurch still stands and bears above it a high course ofbrickwork of the Tudor period, when the ruined wall ofthe Abbey was utilised for the New Palace buildings,erected after the dissolution of the Monastery. The aislewall is the work of the two first Norman Abbots and wascompleted about 1090. It was vaulted, and in the six bayswhich remain, the responds show a cluster of three longshafts with cushion capitals.^* In the second bay from Tower, is a doorway under a segmental arch,with a round-head,


Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . north side of the NormanChurch still stands and bears above it a high course ofbrickwork of the Tudor period, when the ruined wall ofthe Abbey was utilised for the New Palace buildings,erected after the dissolution of the Monastery. The aislewall is the work of the two first Norman Abbots and wascompleted about 1090. It was vaulted, and in the six bayswhich remain, the responds show a cluster of three longshafts with cushion capitals.^* In the second bay from Tower, is a doorway under a segmental arch,with a round-head, comprising an arch above it, the spandrilor intervening space being filled with an indented third bay has an angle-headed doorway with mouldedjambs. In the second storey there is a single round-headed window with jamb shafts and capitals in each bay,which lighted the Triforium of the Nave. Above thesewas a clerestory, with smaller windows of the same char-acter. Two windows remain visible in the third and fourth* Rambles Round Old


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