26o PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



particularly fine effect, and is far more satisfactory in 

 design than that at Gloucester. Freeman says of it : " this 

 " whole elevation must have been one of the very grand- 

 " est in England ; it has all the solemn majesty of a 

 " Romanesque building, combined with somewhat of 

 " Gothic inspiration." 



There is, however, an unpleasing effect in the awWard 

 lines of the long ribs of the quadripartite groining where 

 they join the wall and pass down it. 



Note the roof shafts rising off the caps of the columns, 

 the elaborate mouldings of the arches, and the increased 

 richness eastward, the arch labels and their terminations. 



Aisles. These were lighted by single round-headed 

 windows, with arcades beneath them, many of these re- 

 main with later perpendicular tracery inserted, and some 

 have been entirely replaced with large decorated windows. 



Note the treatment of that on north side — those on the 

 north side are higher than those on the south, being 

 above the cloisters. The vaulting is quadripartite. 



West Front. The treatment of this was unusual in 

 Norman work, at each angle was a large staircase turret, 

 oblong on plan, with a wall connecting it with the west 

 end of the nave, thus forming a facade which screened 

 the terminations of the roofs westward. This facade was 

 richly arcaded and divided into four storeys horizontally. 



Freeman calls this facade " simply a sham," " the pro- 

 totype of that at Salisbury." 



Lincoln and Wells were similarly treated, there was a 

 fine Norman west doorway, which has now a perpendicular 

 insertion within it, and above is a window of similar date. 



A great western tower was added in the perpendicular 

 period. 



The construction of this appears to have been alto- 

 gether exceptional and reckless : instead of being built on 

 to the west end of the Church, as was the usual plan, it 



