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Title: Yorkshire. Maps and plans by Bartholomew
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde, 1843-1906
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Publisher: London Dulau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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arts remaining are the choir, N. transept, portions ofthe W. front and of the windows of the N. aisle. The nave fell in1763 and the central tower m 1830. The W. Front has anE. E. central doorway, finely recessed with worn remains of richmoulding and of niched buttresses. A Perp. window of the N.aisle is evidently a later filling in. Passing into the Wave, wefind that the two most westerly of the windows, just E. of the N.door are richly Dec, originally consisting of four lights. Onlythe central mullion, however, remains. Note also the lowerpart of the ribs branching from richly foliaged capitals. Thethree easterly windows of the aisle are lancet. Between thisaisle and the nave only one pillar—clustered—remains. Of theS. aisle huge fragments that do credit to the tenacity of themortar are scattered about. In the OT. Transept the gable and side-turrets are perfect.There are three stages of lancet windows, with a trefoil arcadebelow. In the gable a rose-window with ten divisions. The
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WHITBY ABBEY. 95 clustered pillars between the N. transept and its E. aisle arecomplete, each with a wide round-headed arch above. Thearchway which leads into the choir-aisle is narrower and has apointed window above. Tooth-ornament abounds both here andin the choir. The Choir is the oldest and most beautiful part of the church.It has a north aisle separated from it by seven clusteredcolumns, with plain E. E. windows and a groined roof. On theS. side four E. E. arches remain besides two pillars up to theircapitals. The Triforium is very like that at Rievaulx, consistingof one round arch divided into two pointed and again sub-divided. Above each of these arches there are in the Clerestorythree E. E. tooth-moulded arches, the central one alone admittinglight. The East End—simple but very pleasing—has three tiers oflancets, three in each tier, the uppermost in the gable—andcorner octagonal turrets. On the S. side of the ruins is Wliitby Hall, built about 1580 and recentlyrestorci I

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