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ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
screen, the desks, stalls, disposition of the groins, and other peculiarities of the
building, as they are capable of being pointed out in a plan.—A. is the entrance
door-way, or principal approach from the southern transept of the church, and forms
a sort of porch, or vestibule to the chapel. It is richly embellished, both externally,
internally, and also within the porch, with tracery, panels, niches, canopies, the
crest and arms of the Beauchamps, &c.—B. B. B. B. the desks and seats, with
carvings of the bear and the griffin at the ends. These stalls are supposed to be
the work of Richard Bird and John Haynes, as described and contracted for in the
agreement, No. 2, p. 11.—C. C. two small desks, for the officiating priests at the
altar. D. door-way to an apartment, F. called John Rous's library, behind the
altar : E. a blank door-way corresponding with D : between these is a sumptuous
altar-screen, consisting of niches, canopies, columns, &c. G. a detached apartment,
or private oratory, having a small window opening to the east, an open screen
between that and the chapel, and a small window and aperture at N. communicating
with the chancel of St. Mary's church. The floor of this oratory is five or six feet
above the floor of the chapel; and the confessional, at H. is also raised still higher.
The groined ceiling is richly ornamented with fan-tracery and pendants. At the
east end was an altar, with an elaborate niche on each side : the floor is paved with
small glazed tiles. J. is the door-way between the chapel and chancel of St. Mary's
church.—K. an apartment fitted up with desks and seats ; probably for the domestics,
or for a particular part of the founder's family.—L. is a third apartment of the same
kind, but without seats, and both separated from the chapel by an open screen.—M.
a circular stair-case to the roof of the chapel.—O. O. door-ways through the but-
tresses ; which are attached to the church, as well as to the chapel.—P. P. P. P. four
buttresses on the south side of the chapel, of extraordinary projection. They are
covered with tracery, which inclose panels, and are very much ornamented with
pedestals, canopies, pinnacles, &c.
Plate II.—A sectional view of the south side of the interior of the chapel;
shewing three divisions longitudinally, and two perpendicularly. The upper portion
consists of three large, uniform windows, divided into six days each, by five upright
mullions. The stone work is large and bold in its cuttings; and the outer bead or
moulding of each mullion is formed by a three-quarter column. Beneath the sills
of the windows is a series of panels, extending from the eastern to the western end ;
divided in height by rich tracery, with a fascia of trefoil foliage, and crowned with
crocketed pediments, pinnacles, &c. The western compartment is faced with a
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
screen, the desks, stalls, disposition of the groins, and other peculiarities of the
building, as they are capable of being pointed out in a plan.—A. is the entrance
door-way, or principal approach from the southern transept of the church, and forms
a sort of porch, or vestibule to the chapel. It is richly embellished, both externally,
internally, and also within the porch, with tracery, panels, niches, canopies, the
crest and arms of the Beauchamps, &c.—B. B. B. B. the desks and seats, with
carvings of the bear and the griffin at the ends. These stalls are supposed to be
the work of Richard Bird and John Haynes, as described and contracted for in the
agreement, No. 2, p. 11.—C. C. two small desks, for the officiating priests at the
altar. D. door-way to an apartment, F. called John Rous's library, behind the
altar : E. a blank door-way corresponding with D : between these is a sumptuous
altar-screen, consisting of niches, canopies, columns, &c. G. a detached apartment,
or private oratory, having a small window opening to the east, an open screen
between that and the chapel, and a small window and aperture at N. communicating
with the chancel of St. Mary's church. The floor of this oratory is five or six feet
above the floor of the chapel; and the confessional, at H. is also raised still higher.
The groined ceiling is richly ornamented with fan-tracery and pendants. At the
east end was an altar, with an elaborate niche on each side : the floor is paved with
small glazed tiles. J. is the door-way between the chapel and chancel of St. Mary's
church.—K. an apartment fitted up with desks and seats ; probably for the domestics,
or for a particular part of the founder's family.—L. is a third apartment of the same
kind, but without seats, and both separated from the chapel by an open screen.—M.
a circular stair-case to the roof of the chapel.—O. O. door-ways through the but-
tresses ; which are attached to the church, as well as to the chapel.—P. P. P. P. four
buttresses on the south side of the chapel, of extraordinary projection. They are
covered with tracery, which inclose panels, and are very much ornamented with
pedestals, canopies, pinnacles, &c.
Plate II.—A sectional view of the south side of the interior of the chapel;
shewing three divisions longitudinally, and two perpendicularly. The upper portion
consists of three large, uniform windows, divided into six days each, by five upright
mullions. The stone work is large and bold in its cuttings; and the outer bead or
moulding of each mullion is formed by a three-quarter column. Beneath the sills
of the windows is a series of panels, extending from the eastern to the western end ;
divided in height by rich tracery, with a fascia of trefoil foliage, and crowned with
crocketed pediments, pinnacles, &c. The western compartment is faced with a