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RIEVAUX ABBEY.
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both fides of the choir, going paft the windows. The
brackets of the columns, rifing from between the arches of the
lower arcade, are adorned with foliage finely carved, yet as
frefh as when firft cut.
Though the tout enfemble of the church is broken up by
ruin, it yet prefents to the eye of the imagination the noble
RIEVAUX : OLD GATEWAY.
afpect of the whole when it was complete and in ufe; its
windows filled with painted glafs, and the incenfe floating in
clouds amongft its lofty groins and traceried capitals, and the
found of anthems fwelling from the choir. The place is
worthy of all its fame. The floors of the choir and tranfept
211
both fides of the choir, going paft the windows. The
brackets of the columns, rifing from between the arches of the
lower arcade, are adorned with foliage finely carved, yet as
frefh as when firft cut.
Though the tout enfemble of the church is broken up by
ruin, it yet prefents to the eye of the imagination the noble
RIEVAUX : OLD GATEWAY.
afpect of the whole when it was complete and in ufe; its
windows filled with painted glafs, and the incenfe floating in
clouds amongft its lofty groins and traceried capitals, and the
found of anthems fwelling from the choir. The place is
worthy of all its fame. The floors of the choir and tranfept