646 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



and capitals cut in the best manner, with Norman foliage, well sunk and undercut, 

 (see plan D, No. 4.) 



The arch will have four Norman mouldings, two of which will be ornamented 

 with a chevron and cable mould, (see plan D, No. 5.) 



A label of octagonal form, and ornamented on the lower face with a Norman leaf, 

 will be carried over the arch of the door, and will spring from two foliage corbels of 

 best design and workmanship. 



Bay window. — The bracket of the bay window, which will project not less than 

 six feet six inches from the face of the wall, will consist of a series of mouldings 

 rising from a large carved corbel. All the face work of the windows between the 

 corbel and the sills will be well cut in both faces and both beds, to a thickness of 13 

 inches. 



An octagonal sill course will be carried all around the tower on a level with the 

 under side of the sills of the bay window. Tbe window sills will be 10 inches high, 

 cut in the best manner. 



All the face work of the bay window above the sill course will be fine cut. 



There will be three windows, one on each side of the bay. The jambs and mul- 

 lions will be of the section shown on plan D, No. 6. 



All the pillars will have plinths, bases, and foliage caps. The arches of the tracery 

 will be raised, and a quatrefoil will be pierced through the sunk panel over them. 

 The tracery will be nine inches thick. The arch of the window will be of same sec- 

 tion as the jamb, except a square will take the place of the shaft of column. Over 

 the windows a double label mould will be carried all around the bay window, and 

 above this line there will be a battlement cut in the best manner, and of good design. 

 The battlement will be cut on both sides. 



Sides of first story of tower. — On each side of the small octagonal tower a window 

 with splayed jambs, arches, and sills, will be cut, and two similar windows will be 

 placed on the opposite side. 



On each side of the octagonal tower in the second story a window with rebated 

 jambs, having each an engaged column, will be cut in the best manner; and there 

 will be two similar ones on the opposite side of tower, between which a niche, having 

 a foliage corbel and canopy, cut in the best manner, will be placed. 



A hook label mould of large size will be carried all around the top of the second 

 story, and well cut. 



Third story. — The base course of the third story will be splayed on upper bed, and 

 well cut. 



The front and rear will each contain a single large window, having a jamb with 

 the section of a splay, and engaged column in a rebate, and a mullion or central 

 column supporting tracery. The tracery arches will be raised, and a quatrefoil 

 pierced through the sunk panel. 



Over the arch of the window there will be an octagonal label resting on two hand- 

 some corbels, which will be well cut. All the columns to have bases, plinths, and 

 foliage caps. 



The sides of the third story will each be pierced by two windows, having splay and 

 column in a rebate for the jambs and arches. 



Battlements, §c. — The machiolations under the battlement will project two feet 

 from the face of the wall, and will be formed of semicircular arches, springing from 

 moulded corbels ; above these will rise the battlement, well cut on both sides, 20 

 inches in thickness, and coped with a heavy moulded coping ; (per plan of architect.) 



The octagonal stair tower attached to the above will have cross-shaped loop-holes 

 and slits to light the stairs from top to bottom. All the mouldings of the main 

 tower will be carried around it, and it will be finished at the top by a battlement 

 with cross-shaped loop-holes. A door for entrance, with plain rebated jambs, will be 

 placed in one side of this tower on the level of the ground, with proper sills, &c; 

 and all the corbels and other mouldings of the tower will be well cut. 



East connecting range — cloister. — The front of the cloister will be a continuous 

 arcade of six arched openings filled with mullions and tracery. The section of the 

 jambs and mullions will be as shown on plan A, No. 15. 



All the columns will have plinths and bases handsomely moulded, and foliage cap- 

 itals of best description. 



The tracery in the heads will be nine inches in thickness, with raised arches, and 

 the panels over these arches will be pierced with quatrefoils. An octagonal label 

 resting on handsome corbels will be carried over the arches. 



