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CHAPEL AT HOUGHTON-LE-DALE, NORFOLK.
with rich crockets. No. 1 shews the face of one of these canopies, with a hori-
zontal section of the niche.
No. 2 shews a portion of the great gable, with a profile of the canopy over
one niche.
In the lower corner of the Plate is a plan of the canopies, which forms a
square, set diagonally, and terminates, above the battlements, in a flat line; but
perhaps these canopies were originally surmounted by two pinnacles, or sculp-
tured figures.
Plate IV. Details of Niches.
No. 1. One of the two larger niches in the west front is here shewn, with
sections, &c. at large.
No. 2 shews one of the small niches placed on each side of the chapel door,
with its plan and section.
The heads of a king and a bishop, in the upper part of tlie Plate, belong to
the niche on the right hand of the principal window, corresponding to that
shewn in this Plate, No. 1.
Plate V. Details of Parapet, &c.
No. 1 represents the ornamental tracery of the parapet at the north-west
quoin, and the mouldings connected with it. The south-west quoin is finished
in a corresponding style.
Nos. 2 and 3 are sections of the water-tables, or copings on the angular
buttresses.
No. 4 is a section of the coping mouldings of the gable.
No. 5 gives a section of the sill of the west window, with the string-course
beneath it.
No. 6 shews the mouldings of the door-case.
No. 7. This section gives the profile of the embattled mouldings and tracery
over the north and south niches, shewn at large in Plate III., to which it must
be referred.
with rich crockets. No. 1 shews the face of one of these canopies, with a hori-
zontal section of the niche.
No. 2 shews a portion of the great gable, with a profile of the canopy over
one niche.
In the lower corner of the Plate is a plan of the canopies, which forms a
square, set diagonally, and terminates, above the battlements, in a flat line; but
perhaps these canopies were originally surmounted by two pinnacles, or sculp-
tured figures.
Plate IV. Details of Niches.
No. 1. One of the two larger niches in the west front is here shewn, with
sections, &c. at large.
No. 2 shews one of the small niches placed on each side of the chapel door,
with its plan and section.
The heads of a king and a bishop, in the upper part of tlie Plate, belong to
the niche on the right hand of the principal window, corresponding to that
shewn in this Plate, No. 1.
Plate V. Details of Parapet, &c.
No. 1 represents the ornamental tracery of the parapet at the north-west
quoin, and the mouldings connected with it. The south-west quoin is finished
in a corresponding style.
Nos. 2 and 3 are sections of the water-tables, or copings on the angular
buttresses.
No. 4 is a section of the coping mouldings of the gable.
No. 5 gives a section of the sill of the west window, with the string-course
beneath it.
No. 6 shews the mouldings of the door-case.
No. 7. This section gives the profile of the embattled mouldings and tracery
over the north and south niches, shewn at large in Plate III., to which it must
be referred.