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seems difficult to explain. The dogtooth ornamentation stops 
here on this side. Various reasons for this change have been 
suggested. Mr. Street, when he made a survey of the building, 
came to the conclusion that the high altar stood here, half way 
down the present choir, and that the four remaining bays formed 
the lady chapel, but against this it has been pointed out that the 
whole building being dedicated to the B.V.M., like Lincoln, there 
would be no need of a separate lady chapel, the reason, most 
likely, being, that the style of architecture changed as time went 
on, or that the moulding of the arch was prepared for, but never 
ornamented with the dog tooth. The combination of the 
triforium and clerestory presents an unusual and ingenious feature, 
giving thereby an appearance of greater height than would 
otherwise have been the case had the two been separate and 
divided by a string course, as is the case in the nave, where the 
arches are less lofty. The lancets, which compose the triforium 
and clerestory, are grouped in pairs, divided by the shafts, spring- 
ing from ornamental brackets—one ornamented with Henry III. 
and his Queen—which support the vaulting. The eastern end 
consists of two tiers of four lancets, the upper row being divided 
by a vaulting shaft. * The dogtooth ornamentation here is much 
richer, there being three rows of it round the heads of each of the 
windows. For an east end, the more usual arrangement is to 
have an uneven number of lancets, varying in height, and the 
only church which in any way conveys a similiar idea, to my 
mind, is St. Cross, near Winchester, where there are two Norman 
windows, in each of the three tiers. The north and south aisles of 
the choir open into small transepts, similar in position to those at 
Lincoln. The high roofs have been destroyed at some time, and 
it is to be hoped that they may be restored at some future period, 
as they would add considerable dignity to the external appearance 
of the building. The high roof was destroyed at a subsequent 
period, the walls raised, the square headed windows on the 
eastern face inserted, and the whole covered with a flat roof. 
From the Early English, we pass on to the Decorated style of 
architecture, and we have a very perfect- specimen of it in the 
