replaced by solid masonry, which sustains a wheel of tracery in the arch (possibly part of the original window), while the lower part is divided into three smaller windows, with little buttresses between, each light having been filled with separate tracery. The nave is also provided with the usual door adjoining the transept and leading into the cloisters. There is no triforium, the wall over the nave arcades (Fig. 758) being blank till the clerestory is reached. The latter consists in the interior of a series of three arches in each bay, and on the exterior (see Fig. 757) chiefly of semicircular windows filled with five pointed openings in each. The sill of the inner arches is kept considerably below the level of that of the outer windows, so as to diminish the blank space between the clerestory and the nave arcade. The main piers consist of a series of rounds, with larger filleted shafts at the angles (Fig. 759), and the caps and arch mouldings (see Fig. 758) indicate first pointed work. [Illustration: FIG. 759. New Abbey, or Sweetheart Abbey. Nave Pier.] The inner trefoiled arches of the triforium are of great beauty, and are enriched with fine bold mouldings (see Fig. 758), supported on bold shafts, the caps of which are carved with finely executed foliage, partly showing some survival of first pointed feeling in the design, and partly copied directly from natural foliage. They indicate a transition stage from the early to the middle pointed style. The nave wall is not divided into bays, with the usual vaulting shafts, the roof being doubtless of timber. The central tower over the crossing stands on four piers, similar in section to, but larger than, the nave piers. The tower itself is square and plain, and rises, with a double crow-stepped gable above a plain parapet, to a height of over 90 feet. The water tables of the steep roofs of the four arms of the church are distinctly visible on the exterior of the tower. The transepts extend 33 feet north and south of the crossing. They are 31 feet wide, and each contains two bays, with a chapel in the eastern aisle opposite each bay. The east aisle of the south transept is the only portion of the whole edifice which retains its vaulted roof. One of the bosses bears a shield containing arms, said to be those of the abbey. The charge consists of two pastoral staves in saltier, over which is a heart, and beneath three mullets of five points. The motto is indistinct.