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Title: Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Winkles, Benjamin Garland, Robert, Architect Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals
Publisher: London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o the clerestory above,whose windows, parapet, and buttresses are of the like description.The south wing of the transept is plain, exhibiting still, on all itsthree sides, much of the original Norman construction and detail,flat buttresses, round-headed windows, with some plain traceryinserted since. The clerestory windows in the east face of thiswing of the transept are, however, pointed, divided into threelights, with good decorated tracery above the straight mullions.The parapet is plain and embattled, but the open spaces narrowand far between. On this side is an aisle, having a window to thesouth, and a double buttress at the outer angle. Very little of theeast wall of this aisle is visible, as a building, called the vestry,adjoins it, and extends eastward almost the whole length of thechoir. . The south side of this building is embattled like that partof the transept just described. Beneath the parapet is a range offour flat-headed windows, divided into several lights, with deco-
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- ui i U II rated tracery above the dividing (millions; bel e of th\-\ oft as the windows in the south side of if. Beneath this large win Is a singular semicircular projection, terminated by a hemisphericalroof, engaged in the wall. A Btring course divides tin- projectioninto two stories j in the upper a narrow round-headed win<seen, in the lower a door of the same form. Over this buildiniseen the clerestory of the choir; tin- wind ix in number, pointed, divided into several lights, and have good decorated tra-cery. The buttresses between the windows are flat, and tin* parapetis quite plain. The south aisle of the choir IS all concealed by thebuilding before-mentioned, except the last compartment of

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