. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. central ones at each end are corbelled off. The eastern one would have interfered with the altar ofthe chapel, the western with the doorway wiiich then opened behind the high altar,and whose arch may still be angel which acts as a corbel over theTransitional recess is very finely conceivedand carved, as also are the bosses ofsculpture on the screens. Indeed theyare as fine as anything the Perpendicularmen ever did. The recess itself is shown onp. 61. The centre cross is 2
. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. central ones at each end are corbelled off. The eastern one would have interfered with the altar ofthe chapel, the western with the doorway wiiich then opened behind the high altar,and whose arch may still be angel which acts as a corbel over theTransitional recess is very finely conceivedand carved, as also are the bosses ofsculpture on the screens. Indeed theyare as fine as anything the Perpendicularmen ever did. The recess itself is shown onp. 61. The centre cross is 2 feet 3 inchessquare and is cut out of a stone i ft. 9 , the four spandrils between thearms being pierced through to the highaltar. The height of the top of the cillis about 3 feet from the present floor ofthe chapel and i ft. 6 in. from that of thesanctuary. As already mentioned, thelower part was found to contain humanbones, run into a solid mass with mortarto prevent desecration, which probablytime of the. MM^W HOSSES ().\ THECORNICE. was done at thereligious changes in the sixteenthcentury. The other crossessurrounding the large one areprobably some of those cut fordedication purposes ; and as thelowest at any rate is earlier thanthe centre, it is probably a oncemuch venerated relic of . own church before thatof I)e Leia. On the opposite side of thischapel—, in the wall betweenBishop Vaughans Chapel andthe ante-chapel—is more finelydetailed Perpendicular work.
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