560 



Stanley Ahhey. 



Fig. 6. — liespond of South Chapel. 



was formed of three circular shafts with beads and hollows between, 

 the base mould, of two rolls, followed the line of the pier but 

 below was octangular and had a small plinth. A portion of the 

 flooring of the fourth chapel remained. 



The south wall of the church extended some 17 feet beyond the 

 west wall, showing that across the west end was a Galilee porch, 

 so usual in a Cistercian church though by no means an essential. 

 It existed at Fountains, Byland, Rievaulx, and Quarr, and where 

 it occurred was a favourite place of interment. 



Owing to the wholesale removal of the church little was found 

 to indicate its internal arrangements beyond those features already 

 described, which may for clearness be repeated. The higli altar 

 was away from the east wall, with a vestry behind, and the side 

 arcades of the presbytery were filled with stone screens. The ends 

 of the aisles were chapels. The south transept had two chapels 

 to the east, undivided by structural walls, and there would be, as 

 usual, a doorway in its south wall. The north transept had one 

 chapel to the east, and must have had a wide staircase against the 

 west wall, from the dorter, for the use of the monks attending the 

 night offices. The second bay of the nave was occupied by the 

 pulpitum, and the monks' quire was in the first bay and under the 

 crossing. There was apparently a chapel in the third bay of the 



