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ARCHITECTURE OF DORE ABBEY. 129
from each smaller pillar plain groins intersecT the
vault. In the two Weltern divinons are lancet
windows and lockers.
The Presbytery, or aile behind the altar, is
composed by four isolated columns, and two
semi-pillars, North and South ; and twelve semi-
pillars on the East wall and back os the altar.
In the Western avenue of columns the slender
pillars reach srom the pavement to the capitals;
but those in the Eastern are half-pillars, on deca-
gon pedestals. Each isolated column contains
eight pillars; those on the wails three only.
The capitals are full of beauty and variety. The
groins of the vaults are stmple, and of graceful
sweeps.
The tall and deep windows at the extremity of
the avenues, and sive others in the Eastern wall,
admit that due and exact, proportion of light
which serves to render every object distincT, and
yet cause a solemn obseurity, highly favourable
to contemplation. Trees siourish close to the
wall os the Presbytery, and their foliage waves
over the glass, throwing their shadows, in fleet-
ing succession, on the pillars and pavement, in
many nameless forms. The feathered songsters
perch on the branches, and erect their nests on
the battlements and in the windows, paying the
sweetest
from each smaller pillar plain groins intersecT the
vault. In the two Weltern divinons are lancet
windows and lockers.
The Presbytery, or aile behind the altar, is
composed by four isolated columns, and two
semi-pillars, North and South ; and twelve semi-
pillars on the East wall and back os the altar.
In the Western avenue of columns the slender
pillars reach srom the pavement to the capitals;
but those in the Eastern are half-pillars, on deca-
gon pedestals. Each isolated column contains
eight pillars; those on the wails three only.
The capitals are full of beauty and variety. The
groins of the vaults are stmple, and of graceful
sweeps.
The tall and deep windows at the extremity of
the avenues, and sive others in the Eastern wall,
admit that due and exact, proportion of light
which serves to render every object distincT, and
yet cause a solemn obseurity, highly favourable
to contemplation. Trees siourish close to the
wall os the Presbytery, and their foliage waves
over the glass, throwing their shadows, in fleet-
ing succession, on the pillars and pavement, in
many nameless forms. The feathered songsters
perch on the branches, and erect their nests on
the battlements and in the windows, paying the
sweetest