. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. VIKW LOOKING N. IN ANTE-CHAlEL TO LADY CLLAPEL, lit with a poor Perpendicular window, and a couple of depressedarches {, with their springing below the capitals) open intothe Lady Chapel. An enormous buttress, however, is anunsightly necessity to prevent the wall above these archesfalling eastwards. Our view (page 67) is taken from theeast, looking west, and shows one of these arches and, onthe south side, the fine Decorated tomb of Bishop composition was that of a fiv
. The cathedral church of Saint David's; a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. VIKW LOOKING N. IN ANTE-CHAlEL TO LADY CLLAPEL, lit with a poor Perpendicular window, and a couple of depressedarches {, with their springing below the capitals) open intothe Lady Chapel. An enormous buttress, however, is anunsightly necessity to prevent the wall above these archesfalling eastwards. Our view (page 67) is taken from theeast, looking west, and shows one of these arches and, onthe south side, the fine Decorated tomb of Bishop composition was that of a five-foiled arch, with openfoliations between crocketed pinnacles rising from octagonal THE ixtp:rior 67 attached shafts with floriated capitals, aU l)eneath a loftystraight-sided canopy. The detail seems to point to BishopGower as the author. The canopy blocks an Early Decoratedwindow and cuts through a string, but its finial was evidentlyutilised as a corbel by Bishop Vaughan for his vaulted roof,traces of which are clearly discernible in the view at the south-west >KI)1I,:A AM) !, nH)!-; (M- ( MAIKI,. The sedilia, of three seats, is a fme design by Gower, thefinials of the crocketed ogee arches forming bosses in thecornice as in some of his other designs. The cross lying on the ground is one which once stood onthe east end of the presbytery, pr()i)ably designed by Sir from an (jld example. Nearly f)|)[)osite is a recess for a tomb wliich seems to havebeen similar lo that of I)ishop Martyn. This was wronglysupposed lo be of l!ishii|) liouglitoii, whu founded and 68 ST. DAVIDS CATHEDRAL was buried in his own chapel of St. Marys College, not Chapel, hence confusion. Archdeacon Yardley con-jectures with plausibility that Gower erected these two tombs tohis immediate predecessors, Martyn and Beck (i280-1328).Externally, and to some extent even now internally, the LadyChapel has assumed the appearance of a Perpendicular build-
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