By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 559 



The north aisle has left no remains save a patch of flooring of 

 plain tiles against the fourth pillar, and the foundation of a cross 

 wall at the third pillar. This probably supported a screen to enclose 

 a chapel in the aisle behind the bay with the tomb, which was a 

 usual treatment of nave aisles in late days, as at Fountains, Kirk- 

 stall, and Eievaulx. 



The south aisle was 11 feet wide, and a mass of foundation of 

 its south and west walls remains at the south-west angle. Sepa- 

 tating the nave from the quire of all monastic churches was a large 

 gallery called the ptdpitum, which was sometimes carried by a 

 broad screen wall and sometimes by two narrow ones. In the 

 space beneath was a seat from which the old monks from the in- 

 firmary witnessed the services. At Stanley in the fourteenth 

 century a new fidintuvi was built, of which the lower part of the 

 western screen wall remains. It was 34 inches thick and had a 

 doorway 3 feet 8 inches wide in the middle. This had a stone 

 sill, which remained, and the arch was a pointed segment, simply 

 moulded, of which a stone forming one of its sides was found. 

 Eastward of this wall was a quantity of tile flooring laid very 

 carelessly and partly covering the pits of the earlier quire stalls. 



During the first half of the fouiteenth century chapels were 

 added on the outside of the south aisle. They were about 20 feet 

 deep and had solid dividing walls. Indications of at least four 

 chapels were found, but they probably extended the entire length of 

 the nave up to tlie west end, as at Maulbroun, in Germany, and 

 at Melrose, though no similar example has yet been found in 

 England. In the first and second chapels a fragment of the floor 

 remains. In the third was a large surface of flooring, which was 

 formed of tiles 8 inches square. These bore the leopards of 

 England, the chevrons of Clare, and three lions rampant, and were 

 laid in pattern with cross and diagonal bands. This floor extended 

 across the line of the aisle wall, showing that the chapel was con- 

 nected therewith by a wide arch. The dividing wall between the 

 third and the fourth chapel remained, and in connection with it, 

 in line of the aisle wall, was the eastern base of the respond which 

 carried the archway between the chapel and the aisle. The respond 



