218 Lacock Abbey. 
The southern chapel has in the south wall a piscina with — 
shouldered head and projecting trefoil basin. Directly to the — 
west is a moulded trefoiled arch forming the back of the door from 
the church. . 
The northern chapel had originally in the north wall a locker of ~ 
two divisions with rebates for shutters; but this was destroyed in 
the 15th century, except the sill, and a moulded arched wall recess 
inserted, probably to hold another tomb. About the same time 
the chapel was decorated with colour, which still remains in places. — 
There was a continuous band of interlacing lines round the wall 
arch. The field of the vault was profusely besprinkled with black 
five-rayed stars, and the flat chamfers of the large cross arch were 
decorated with an elegant design of scroll and leaf work. 
The east windows are quite modern. In the last century, among 
other of Ivory Talbot’s “improvements,” the east walls of this 
apartment and the chapter-house were entirely removed, leaving 
only the buttresses as support for the vault, and no indication of 
any medizeval windows existed." 
The large centre pier of the cross arches is formed by a cylinder 
with attached columns at the cardinal points, and has moulded 
caps and bases, and is supported on a wide plinth in the shape of 
a bench table. The responds are half octagons, each with a single 
attached column (towards the centre pier) having ‘ moulded 
caps and bases, and the abacus and plinth of which return round 
the octagons: but there is no bench-table beneath. The finished 
floor level must have been at least 18 inches higher at the sides 
than in the centre. 
The west wall contained the dorter stairs, and is therefore much 
thicker than the rest of the wall of this side of the range. Towards its 
north end is a doorway from the cloister, of two orders of chamfered 
members; the outer resting on jamb shafts (destroyed) with 
1The windows removed by Ivory Talbot were square-headed two-light 
windows of the sixteenth century, and are shown in the engraving by S. and 
N. Buck already referred to. Probably the medieval windows, which gave 
place to these, were late insertions; as the upper stones of the wall ribs of 
the vaulting were hollowed out, as if to receive the heads of large windows. 
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