Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . ve had mullionsand tracery of the pointed style inserted, as have also those of theaisle; and in these the form of the arch has been made to cor-respond also with that style. Beneath these windows is a beautifulrange of Norman arches resting on columns, the buttresses betweenthe windows are broad but project very little, there is hardly anyparapet, and that of the clerestory is quite plain, and rests on a cor-bel table. The north end of the transept and its eastern aisle haveeach a large wind
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . ve had mullionsand tracery of the pointed style inserted, as have also those of theaisle; and in these the form of the arch has been made to cor-respond also with that style. Beneath these windows is a beautifulrange of Norman arches resting on columns, the buttresses betweenthe windows are broad but project very little, there is hardly anyparapet, and that of the clerestory is quite plain, and rests on a cor-bel table. The north end of the transept and its eastern aisle haveeach a large window of decorated character inserted in the originalwall, beneath them the same beautiful arcade is continued. Thetracery in the great window of the transept is good, but eclipsedby that of earlier date in the magnificent window of this end of thechapel of the Nine Altars. The gable point of the transept isadorned with a sort of net work in relief very common in Normanbuildings, beneath which is an arcade of intersecting semi-circulararches. That of the latter has an open arcade of trefoiled arches,. i;ii \ m C vi in DH \i resting on ihoii columnsj and another abo?e no( open* in whichthe arches have straight canopiei ending in finials. The transepthas no aisle t<» the wrest The nave vritb it- clerestory and ride.•li.^lc .-iic ven similar t those of the choir alread ribed, but more regular and of much greater extent The porch occupiei thesecond division of the nave from the wesl end externally, bul inter-nally the third; the door has a semicircular bead of somedepthjthe several mouldings of which it consists resting on cylindrical columns. This side of the ue-t tower 18 in it- architectural features to the west front of it, the north Bide of tin- galilee (whichrises by a succession of buttresses from the precipitous f;i<« of therock and affords considerable support to the lower part of the westerntowers) has been already described, with the rest of that inte
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