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Internally. There are some points of interest which 

 should' be noted. The perpendicular rood screen .still 

 remains within the present church, and forms an altar 

 screen ; and stone screens of the same date, but with 

 decorated tracery, exist at the ends of the aisles. 



The tomb of Athelstan, so called, is now placed on the 

 south side of the altar. 



There is a curious projecting gallery on the bays of the 

 south triforium, and Freeman suggests that this may have 

 been a watching place of some kind. 



As before pointed out, the cloisters and buildings were 

 on the north side, and the ground here slopes rapidly 

 down to the river. The effect of the whole group of 

 buildings from this side must have been very fine. Some 

 remains of the old buildings may be seen forming a base- 

 ment to the old house to the north-east of the Church. 



There is one point to which I should particularly like to 

 direct attention, and that is the wonderful similarity in 

 much of this Church with that of certain of the Roman- 

 esque Churches of the South of France. 



The decoration on top of the abacus of some of the 

 nave columns closely resembles that on a string at the 

 Chapel of St Croix de Montmajour. At the Cloister at 

 the same place are arcades of four arches beneath one. 



The T + is on an abacus in the Chapel of St Gabrielle, 

 and at St Trophime (Aries). 



The ornament over the north door is similar to that 

 on the capitals of the columns in the cloisters of Vaison, 

 and also at Montmajour. 



(END OF Vol. XII.) 



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