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By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 553 



The east wall had gone, but was marked by a sinking in the ground. 

 The foundation of the first pier on the north was found, and iu 

 connection with it was a portion of a screen wall 28 inches thick. 

 This screen filled the second arch, and probably, as at Fountains 

 and Tintern, was continued under the other arches of the presbytery 

 and separated it from the aisles. About 8 feet inside the east end 

 was a solid platform of uncertain extent that marked the site of 

 the high altar, the space behind being used for a vestry, as at 

 Roche, Kirkstall, and other places. 



The aisles finished in line with the main east end, as at Eievaulx, 

 Salley, Netley, and Tintern, and had chapels in the easternmost 

 bays. Of the south aisle nothing but tlie depression of its grubbed- 

 up outer walls remained. Of the north aisle a large piece of the 

 flooring was found in position. There were indications of a cross 

 step in line with the first pillar of the arcade, and another 7 feet 

 eastward, leaving a space 10 feet wide for the altar platform. 

 The floor tiles were set without any reference to their patterns 

 except below the first step, where the general flooring was of plain 

 yellow and black tiles with a border of two rows of narrow tiles. 



The crossing is now marked by the four holes from which the 

 piers have been grubbed. The tower, which was much narrower 

 from east to west than from north to south, would, even at the 

 end of the thirteenth century, have been of no great height, in 

 accordance with the rule that " there be no towers of stone for 

 bells, nor of wood to an immoderate height, which are unsuitable 

 to the simplicity of the Order." The quire from the first was 

 partly under the crossing. A considerable length of the walls to 

 support the stalls of the. first work was found on the north, and 

 a fragment of the inner wall on the south. The gangway between 

 the two ranks of stalls was 9| feet. 



The south transept was about 48 feet long by 24 feet wide, and 

 had an arcade of three bays on the east. The first arch, which 

 had a step across it, led into the aisle of the presbytery, and the 

 other two into the chapels, which were also raised a step above 

 the transept floor. The foundations of the west wall remain in 

 part, but the south end has gone. 



