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part of the transept, together with plans of the opening, and an enlarged represen-
tation of one division of the outer moulding of the exterior. There are other windows
to the chancel of similar character; and on the north side is a Pointed arched
Door-way, surrounded by a clustered band of zigzag mouldings rising from short
columns, with Norman impost capitals. Plate No. 31 shews the east end of the
south aisle, with an octagonal column, and part of the east end and north side of the
chancel. The manner in which the Pointed and semicircular styles are blended in
this church may be readily comprehended from this illustration; but it is not a little
curious that Milner50 should have attributed the rise of Pointed architecture to the
piercing, by De Blois, of the intersectional arches of the clerestory, when the great
arches themselves, of the basement story, are all pointed, as shewn both in this print,
and in that of the nave and aisles, Plate No.32. In the architectural details and orna-
ments of this Church there are many peculiarities, some of which have been accu-
rately delineated by Repton in the sixteenth volume of the Archseologia,51 but unfor-
tunately there is no description to the same. Almost all the capitals and bases of
the columns are varied, alternately, in their forms as well as in their ornaments ;
and similar variations are observable in the ribs of the aisles. " Here," says Milner,
" we view almost every kind of Saxon and Norman ornament, the chevron, the
billet, the hatched, the pellet, the fret, the indented, the nebule, the wavy, all
superiorly executed." There are three columns on each side the nave, and two on
each side the chancel, some of which are octagonal, and others circular; and in
the clerestory of the southern part of the transept are pointed arches with zigzag
and other Norman mouldings. The western end and upper story of the nave are
of much later date than the parts described, and were probably raised about the end
of the fourteenth, or at the commencement of the fifteen century, either by Bishop
Wykeham, or by Cardinal Beaufort, the arms of both those prelates appearing on
the central bosses of the vaulting. The west entrance, or portal, consists of a large
pointed arch, with several mouldings, springing from two slender columns on each
side, and internally divided by an octagonal shaft into two trefoil-headed openings,
above which, in the central space, is an open quatrefoil. The large west window
is divided into five principal lights by plain mullions, and in the head of the arch
is a circular compartment of tracery-work, with trefoil and other shaped lights in
50 " History of Winchester," vol. ii. pp. 160—163, 2nd edit.
51 See the Appendix, p. 361, and attached Plates.
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
part of the transept, together with plans of the opening, and an enlarged represen-
tation of one division of the outer moulding of the exterior. There are other windows
to the chancel of similar character; and on the north side is a Pointed arched
Door-way, surrounded by a clustered band of zigzag mouldings rising from short
columns, with Norman impost capitals. Plate No. 31 shews the east end of the
south aisle, with an octagonal column, and part of the east end and north side of the
chancel. The manner in which the Pointed and semicircular styles are blended in
this church may be readily comprehended from this illustration; but it is not a little
curious that Milner50 should have attributed the rise of Pointed architecture to the
piercing, by De Blois, of the intersectional arches of the clerestory, when the great
arches themselves, of the basement story, are all pointed, as shewn both in this print,
and in that of the nave and aisles, Plate No.32. In the architectural details and orna-
ments of this Church there are many peculiarities, some of which have been accu-
rately delineated by Repton in the sixteenth volume of the Archseologia,51 but unfor-
tunately there is no description to the same. Almost all the capitals and bases of
the columns are varied, alternately, in their forms as well as in their ornaments ;
and similar variations are observable in the ribs of the aisles. " Here," says Milner,
" we view almost every kind of Saxon and Norman ornament, the chevron, the
billet, the hatched, the pellet, the fret, the indented, the nebule, the wavy, all
superiorly executed." There are three columns on each side the nave, and two on
each side the chancel, some of which are octagonal, and others circular; and in
the clerestory of the southern part of the transept are pointed arches with zigzag
and other Norman mouldings. The western end and upper story of the nave are
of much later date than the parts described, and were probably raised about the end
of the fourteenth, or at the commencement of the fifteen century, either by Bishop
Wykeham, or by Cardinal Beaufort, the arms of both those prelates appearing on
the central bosses of the vaulting. The west entrance, or portal, consists of a large
pointed arch, with several mouldings, springing from two slender columns on each
side, and internally divided by an octagonal shaft into two trefoil-headed openings,
above which, in the central space, is an open quatrefoil. The large west window
is divided into five principal lights by plain mullions, and in the head of the arch
is a circular compartment of tracery-work, with trefoil and other shaped lights in
50 " History of Winchester," vol. ii. pp. 160—163, 2nd edit.
51 See the Appendix, p. 361, and attached Plates.