. Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely . windows now without mullions and bereftof tracery. Each aisle has three pointed gables,plastered, with traces of former windows. Somegood terminal heads. In angle of S. aislean ogee piscina, trefoiled, by the easternmostwindow; the sill forms a bench. Font plainoctagonal, bears date 1672. It has a low cover,surmounted by a dove. Towner arch and Dec. A curious exterior feature is ob-servable in regard to the buttresses, which arepierced to admit an open drain, which has beenexcavated (possibly when the church was re-stored in 1710),
. Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely . windows now without mullions and bereftof tracery. Each aisle has three pointed gables,plastered, with traces of former windows. Somegood terminal heads. In angle of S. aislean ogee piscina, trefoiled, by the easternmostwindow; the sill forms a bench. Font plainoctagonal, bears date 1672. It has a low cover,surmounted by a dove. Towner arch and Dec. A curious exterior feature is ob-servable in regard to the buttresses, which arepierced to admit an open drain, which has beenexcavated (possibly when the church was re-stored in 1710), and constructed wuth peculiarcare. Register, 1571. Transcript, 1599- Bottisham, E. of Cambridge.—Holy Trinity(mainly early 14th cent., finest in county of thatstyle) : Chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, S. porches, large W. porch, or Galilee,low embattled W. tower with pinnacles, fivebells. Chancel early Dec, with Perp. windows,memorial E. window three lancets, reredos, piscina and sediHa. Chancel arch or. CAMBRIDGESHIRE 13 early Dec. Rood-screen of stone Perp., three loftyarches with pierced spandrils. Both aisles haveparclose oak screens of delicate tracery, whichmay have extended across the nave. Nave hasfive lofty and richly-moulded arches Dec, pierswith bell caps. Clerestory has single lancets ofsame date, and two small windows inserted inE. wall. Aisles have very fine windows earlyDec, with characteristic tracery under S. aislewindows; within and without is richly mouldedarcading, each arch enclosing a stone coffin,upon which the walls appear to have been E. end of aisle large and beautiful piscinaand sedile early Dec Double string courseruns round interior above and below windows,the upper terminating in labels. N. and very good Dec. The architraves ofdoors spring from shafts, over which a stringcourse is carried as a square hood. Tower restson a low arch. To the W. is an porch, towhich the cognomen of * Galilee is ap
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