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jL ANTHONY. 14^
the piers, alternately, are short pillars with (len-
der pointed mouldings, inclosing circular-arched
clerestory windows; and each had galleries beneath
them of pointed arches. A roof was then erect-
ing on the South-west tower, and three chimney-
places were completed. How the former has
affected the antient contour I am unable to fav.
The ailes of the nave are narrow ; and but
two arches remain, though part of the North wall
is srill Handing. Two strong pilasters or abut-
ments secure the sides beneath the towers, with
pointed arches and ssuted capitals. The groins
arise from brackets next the middle aile, and
from pillars next the windows, which have cir-
cular arches. A fine tree ssourishes on the North
wall, and another on the broken arch of the aile,.
full 12 feet from the earth.
The great tower is supported by four large
piers, and very strong pointed arches, on capitals
like those of the Tuscan order; above which are
brackets of clustered pillars, resting on foliage.
On the summit, broken by violence and injured
by the weather, are numbers of bushes, and quan-
tities of ivy, and the North side is shaded by what
appears from the base to be a yew. The foliage
thus surroundinp- the walls give them a moit
beautiful effect. The passages through the piers,
across the windows, are vistble ; but the stones of
the
the piers, alternately, are short pillars with (len-
der pointed mouldings, inclosing circular-arched
clerestory windows; and each had galleries beneath
them of pointed arches. A roof was then erect-
ing on the South-west tower, and three chimney-
places were completed. How the former has
affected the antient contour I am unable to fav.
The ailes of the nave are narrow ; and but
two arches remain, though part of the North wall
is srill Handing. Two strong pilasters or abut-
ments secure the sides beneath the towers, with
pointed arches and ssuted capitals. The groins
arise from brackets next the middle aile, and
from pillars next the windows, which have cir-
cular arches. A fine tree ssourishes on the North
wall, and another on the broken arch of the aile,.
full 12 feet from the earth.
The great tower is supported by four large
piers, and very strong pointed arches, on capitals
like those of the Tuscan order; above which are
brackets of clustered pillars, resting on foliage.
On the summit, broken by violence and injured
by the weather, are numbers of bushes, and quan-
tities of ivy, and the North side is shaded by what
appears from the base to be a yew. The foliage
thus surroundinp- the walls give them a moit
beautiful effect. The passages through the piers,
across the windows, are vistble ; but the stones of
the