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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



The most interesting feature, however, of this curious structure is its 

 chancel archway, of which only the piers with their semi-columns on each 

 side remain; but a great number of the sculptured stones, which formed 

 its compound arch, are still to be seen scattered about the cemetery. It is 

 to be lamented, however, that many others of them have been carried away 

 within the last few years ; and as such barbarous devastation of these ruins 

 is too likely to be continued, since there is, unfortunately, no care taken to 

 prevent it, I feel it an imperative duty to preserve, so far as is in my power, 

 every memorial of fragments so interesting to the history of art in this country. 



This archway is a compound one, consisting of three receding piers with 

 semi-columns, the arrangement of which will be sufficiently understood from the 

 prefixed illustration, recently drawn, and the ground-plan, which is given at the 

 close of this description. Its breadth, at its innermost arch, is ten feet, and its 

 height to the vertex was eleven feet : the height of the semi-columns is six 

 feet one inch and a half, of which the capitals measure nine inches and a half, 

 the shafts four feet, the bases eight inches, and the plinths eight inches. 



