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Plan. On reference to the plan it will be seen that the 

 whole of the main walls are Norman, eveiything in fact 

 to the clerestory level except some minor details, and the 

 building consisted of the usual parts of a great Norman 

 Church, the four arms of the cross and a central tower, 

 and the dimensions, so far as they can be ascertained, 

 were as follows : the nave, 150 ft. by 32 ft. ; north and 

 south aisles, each 12 ft. by 150 It. ; the central tower, 28 

 ft. by 28 ft. within the walls ; he south transept, 39 ft., 

 internal projection beyond the aisle, the width probably 

 30 ft. The size of the north transept cannot be deter- 

 mined, nor vet the sizes of the presbytery, and the eastern 

 chapel which is said to have existed. 



William of Worcester mentions some dimensions 

 (gresons snos) from which it might be inferred that the 

 length of the presbytery was 110 ft. east of the crossing, 

 that is, a presbytery of six bays, with an eastern ambulatory 

 supposing the bays were the same size as those of the 

 nave (see plan in blue) ; but Freeman thinks that the pres- 

 bytery was " a short Norman structure of 3 or 4 bays, as 

 at Peterboro' or Romsey," (see plan in red.) 



The large south porch is 14 ft. by 12 ft. 



The cloisters and other buildings were to the north of 

 the Church, as at Gloucester, and in their main features 

 no doubt followed the usual Benedictine arrangement. 



Nave. The nave is divided into 9 bays, with arcades 

 of slightly pointed arches resting on circular columns 

 about 5 ft. in diameter. Above them is a triforium, with the 

 somewhat unusual arrangement of an arcade of 4 arches 

 enclosed in one semi-circular arch, all being Norman ; 

 above this again is a clerestory and vaulting of entirely 

 decorated work, except at the eastern end where the 

 3-light decorated windows have been inserted in the Nor- 

 man walls. 



The unusual height of the clerestory (which appears to 

 have been about the same in the Norman work) has a 



