angles, without pinnacles.
“The south face of the choir, with its aisle, is in nearly all
respects similar to the south portion of the transept; but the aisle
is lengthened out beyond the choir, and becomes the side aisle of the
Lady Chapel, and has an octangular turret near the east end, with
embattled parapet, and beyond it a plain heavy clumsy buttress: the
sloping parapet of the east face of this aisle meets at the top the
flat plain parapet of the most eastern compartment of the Lady Chapel
which projects beyond the aisle, to that extent. The windows of the
Lady Chapel are all pointed, and of good perpendicular character; the
projecting portion has double buttresses at the external angles, and
the eastern face has a low gable point. This chapel is very little
higher than the side aisles of the choir, the east face of which is
seen over it, with a large lofty pointed window, with perpendicular
tracery and several transoms, flanked with octagonal turrets,
engaged, and terminated with something like domes of Elizabethan
architecture. The parapet of this east face of the choir is flat.
The north side of Lady Chapel is similar to the south; the choir and
its aisles exhibit features of early English character on this side,
but the chapter-room conceals a considerable portion of it, which is
a small building of an oblong form, and also of early English
architecture. Over its vestibule and the arched passage leading into
the east walk of the cloister, is seen the large window in the north
front of the transept; the arch is much depressed, the tracery very
common and plain, and it has two transoms; the walls of this wing of
the transept are very plain, flat at top, and no parapet. The whole
north side of the nave can be seen only from the cloister-yard. The
south walk of the cloister is gone, and in the wall of the aisle,
below the windows, are still seen several enriched semicircular
arches resting on short cylindrical columns, evidently belonging to
the original church of Hugh Lupus. The windows of the aisle are
Tudor arched, with the ordinary tracery of this period; but, owing to
the cloister once existing beneath, are necessarily curtailed of half
their due length: there is a thin flat buttress between each; the
aisle has no parapet. The clerestory is lofty, and the windows
pointed, and not so much depressed as those in the aisle beneath:
they are not so lofty as those in the south side, nor have they any
canopies. There is a thin buttress between each, without pinnacles,
and the parapet is quite plain, but not so shallow as that on the
south side.
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