I30 ARCHITECTURE OF DORE ABBEY.
sweetest melody as a quit-rent to the lilent dead
who repose near them.
Under the second window from the East wall,
on the North side, is*a trefoiled seat.
The two Eastern divilions of the North aile
are like the South ; but the third has a strong
arch, and the groins commence on brackets.
There are two windows and a door on this side.
A gigantic effigies, representing a crusader in
chain armour, with the legs crossed, lies on the
seat between the choir and South aile. Another
at the back of the altar, broken, and the head
near it. A key-stone sculptured with, perhaps,
the prior kneeling before the patroness, the BlesTed
Virgin ; and a second, with the Saviour bellowing
a benediction upon a kneeling female, in a coro-
net, accompany the latter essigies. And an
empty Hone coffin, with a key-Hone representing
an enormous busf, are near the crusader.
LANTHONY.
Mr. V- and mysels returned the same
evening from this excurlion, highly gratified ;
but the following day advanced without the
usual brilliancy os the morning. The Sun was
not altogether invisible, but its rays were eclipsed
by
sweetest melody as a quit-rent to the lilent dead
who repose near them.
Under the second window from the East wall,
on the North side, is*a trefoiled seat.
The two Eastern divilions of the North aile
are like the South ; but the third has a strong
arch, and the groins commence on brackets.
There are two windows and a door on this side.
A gigantic effigies, representing a crusader in
chain armour, with the legs crossed, lies on the
seat between the choir and South aile. Another
at the back of the altar, broken, and the head
near it. A key-stone sculptured with, perhaps,
the prior kneeling before the patroness, the BlesTed
Virgin ; and a second, with the Saviour bellowing
a benediction upon a kneeling female, in a coro-
net, accompany the latter essigies. And an
empty Hone coffin, with a key-Hone representing
an enormous busf, are near the crusader.
LANTHONY.
Mr. V- and mysels returned the same
evening from this excurlion, highly gratified ;
but the following day advanced without the
usual brilliancy os the morning. The Sun was
not altogether invisible, but its rays were eclipsed
by