. Archaeologia cantiana. W ^ \ NORTH-WEST BAY OF CHAKCEL, ST. MAKY, STONE. CHUECH OF ST. MARY, STONE. 125 whilst externally they consist of bold chamfers and hol-lows only. The detail of the sculpture of the capitalsof the monials was managed with rare skill, as will beseen by the illustration which I give of a fragment. found in the north wall. This windoAV is now treatedin the same way as that at the east end of the northaisle, being partly above and partly below the roof ofthe Wilshyre chantry. An old arch existed behind thearcade under it, and this has been replaced by one ofstone, so that
. Archaeologia cantiana. W ^ \ NORTH-WEST BAY OF CHAKCEL, ST. MAKY, STONE. CHUECH OF ST. MARY, STONE. 125 whilst externally they consist of bold chamfers and hol-lows only. The detail of the sculpture of the capitalsof the monials was managed with rare skill, as will beseen by the illustration which I give of a fragment. found in the north wall. This windoAV is now treatedin the same way as that at the east end of the northaisle, being partly above and partly below the roof ofthe Wilshyre chantry. An old arch existed behind thearcade under it, and this has been replaced by one ofstone, so that the chantry is now sufficiently open tothe chancel for the purpose of use by the the south wall of the chancel is the old piscina,under one of the divisions of the arcading. The arcadeis continued across the east wall of the chancel, in fourdivisions; and treated exactly in the same way as at thesides: it is pretty clear, therefore, that it can never havebeen intended to place the altar against the wall, andit was no doubt brought forward a few feet (with per-haps a low wall or reredos behind it) in the way so com-mon in the case of apsidal chancels, and of which wehave examples at Arundel and at Warfield in the case
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