228 On the Existing Structure of Lacock Abbey. 



ideal joints of red paint. A sketch on the wall, which may repre- 

 sent St. Joseph, appears to be executed in the same colour. 



I should suppose this room to have formed part of the Abbess's 

 private lodging. 



The rooms above-mentioned, with the exception of the kitchen, 

 are all Early English. 



The Abbey Church. 



Of this building, which was also of the 13th century, the greater 

 part of the north wall remains, forming the south wall of the 

 present house. There are some drawings by Mr. Harrison, an 

 architect employed for the alterations carried out in the present 

 century, which are useful, as showing what then existed, though 

 very inaccurate in the forms of the arches, which are all drawn as 

 four-centred; 



The church appears to have been a rectangle, without aisles, 

 and vaulted with stone. Internally it must have been about 120 

 feet long, and more than 30 feet to the crown of the vaulting, of 

 which there were six bays. The wall-rib of the vaulting seems to 

 have been shaved down to the general surface of the wall, and is 

 still very plainly to be traced in the two eastern bays. There were 

 lancet windows on the north side in the four western bays. Thej' 

 reached to the vaulting, but it is uncertain how far they descended. 



Some of the corbels that carried the wooden roof above the 

 vaulting, remain. 



In the second bay from the west there was a doorway, which 

 was probably blocked up on the erection of the cloisters. Harrison's 

 drawing shews another, in the fourth bay, which would agree in 

 position with the east walk of the cloisters, and may have formed 

 the entrance from that side, after their erection. Close to this 

 was the square-headed door, which, as I have suggested, may have 

 communicated with a stair-case to the dormitory. 



There is a door in the eastern bay, that led from the sacristy. 



Externall)', the lower part of the buttress at the west end seems 

 to be Early English, and the base of an octagonal pinnacle above 

 may possibly be of the same period. In 1732, this pinnacle 

 retained its pyramidal top. 



