content to copy the style prevalent in England, but impressed upon them their own peculiar treatment. The lofty eastern lancets spring from a height, which must always have been, for the size of the church, remarkably little above the pavement, and there is just a trace of a moulded arched label over the two upper lancets. This arch probably indicated the line of the presbytery, whether of arched boarding or of vaulting. The corbel table around the presbytery and transept walls is bold and peculiar, and is of two patterns. The shafts internally afford some evidence probably of an intention of vaulting the ceiling, which was never carried out, and the sloping line of stone visible inside and out in the walls seems to be indicative that the west end of the chancel was once covered by a hipped roof. This could only be prior to the erection of the central tower. The other sloping line crossing is that of the roof of the sacristan’s passage to the loop. The slit on the south side is from a curious little room and passage at the back of the monks’ dormitory. A great many guesses have been made to determine the use of this passage and the loop-hole, probably from the abbot’s oriel in St. Bartholomew’s, London; it has been called the abbot’s closet. It is, however, that for the sacristan, from which he would watch the perpetual lamp of the sanctuary at night. The high altar has not stood touching the east wall, but away from it, as at Fountain’s Abbey and many other places. The aumbry in the south wall has a semicircular arch, and has been double. The bases of the four altars of the transept chapels are very apparent, and they have been covered with arcading. They are attached, as is usual in these positions, to the east walls. The intermediate arches dividing the chapels have probably been filled in only to a certain height, to allow of the picturesque effect being preserved. Each of these altars is furnished with a piscina. The northern altar of the northern transept has a detached pillar piscina. The others have lockers in the wall in several instances, and the elegant and early carving of the brackets of the piscina will be observed with interest. There are two floor drains to the north-east chapel. The remaining arches of the transepts are designed in a very severe style, and the capitals are a tradition of some building of earlier date. The borders of the arches are simple rectangles without even a chamfer, but the effect is excellent. We may in the sheltered stonework of these chapels observe that the whole surface of the wrought stone has been covered with a film of plastering upon which coloured decorations are still traceable here and there. This use of colour was forbidden in Cistercian houses, and I am for one glad to think