. The Archaeological journal. s only with the church, fromwhich it is entered by a direct stair from the chapel eastof the north transept. Before the suppression it was pro-bably one large room where the many vestments andornaments were kept, but it is now divided up by modernpartitions into three separate vestries. All the old fittingshave disappeared, but Carters plan shews in it the twocope chests that now stand in the church. The library is an interesting room of the 14tli century,retaining nmch of its original open roof The north sidehas eleven windows, each of two square-headed lights an
. The Archaeological journal. s only with the church, fromwhich it is entered by a direct stair from the chapel eastof the north transept. Before the suppression it was pro-bably one large room where the many vestments andornaments were kept, but it is now divided up by modernpartitions into three separate vestries. All the old fittingshave disappeared, but Carters plan shews in it the twocope chests that now stand in the church. The library is an interesting room of the 14tli century,retaining nmch of its original open roof The north sidehas eleven windows, each of two square-headed lights and , 74. ST. rJiTEli AT GL()UCEbTEJ{. 89 perfectly i)laiii, which lighted the bays or studies. Thelarge end windows are late Ierpendicular, each of sevenlights with a transom. There are other alterations, suchas the beautiful wooden corbels from which the roofsprings, which are probably contemporary with the workof the cloister, when the western stair to the library wasbuilt .ind the room altered. Xone of the old fittings. THE CHAPTER HOUSE, GLOUCESTER, LOOKING WESTWARDS. (From Murrajs Handbook to the Western Cathedrals.) riow remain, but there can be no doubt that this wasthe library. It corresponds in position exactly with thatat Durham, which is described in Rites as standingebetwixt the Chapter house and the Te Deum wyndowe,being well replenished with ould written Docters andother histories and ecciesiasticall writers.^ Rites, 27. 90 NOTES ON THE BENEDICTINE ABBEY OF The next building in order is the caintuhun or chapterhouse. It is three bays long, and originally terminated^as at Durham, Eeading, and Norwich, in a semi-circularapse, which was replaced by the present polygonal apsein the 15th century. The roof is a lofty barrel vaultcarried by three pointed arches. The vault of the apse-is an ordinary lierne vault. Along the side walls, whichare arcaded, may be traced the line of the stone benchon which the monks sat in chapter. The presidents seatin the new apse seems
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