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SOME FURTHER NOTES ON BURTON ABBEY PLAN. 42 
original pitch of the roof; and the aisle walls would doubtless have 
been higher than now shown. Of course, the aisle on the South 
side of the Church could not have had any windows because the 
cloister would have abutted against it, and the North walk of the 
cloister was occupied, as I told you in my former paper, and was 
used by the Monks as their study. Hollar shows no windows. Now 
let us count the pillars. We find five pillars and a respond, or half 
pillar, at the West end. This agrees with Shaw's plan. 
We know that in 1474 the tower of the lower Church fell, and 
that Abbot Thomas Field, in 1475, repaired the walls of the nave 
on the North side and four columns, also rebuilt the arch between 
the upper and lower Church and the belfry. This work is clearly 
shown by Hollar. Comparing the central tower with that at the 
West end, it shows that the tower was rebuilt square up to 
the top of the clerestory, and four pinnacles erected at the angles, 
then an octagon lantern added, and finished with an octagon roof, or 
stunted spire. The transept seems to have kept its original quick- 
pitched roof. For the re-roofing of the nave we have the date, The 
explosion of gunpowder is said to have blown out the windows and 
burst up the roof ; any way, there is a very disjointed look about the 
junction of the tower and transept. 
Looking again at the nave ot Rochester, you see the Norman 
Nave, Arcade, and Triforium. The spandril between the two arches, 
and under the main arch, is solid, not pierced ; and, of course, in the 
nave where it could be well seen it is ornamented; but on the aisle 
side, where it could not be seen under the aisle roof and above the 
vault, if there was one, it would be plain, 
Hollar’s drawing shows this very well. The great arch of the 
triforium, and below it the unpierced spandril, and the two arches 
below ; but being on the outer or aisle side, they have no ornament- 
ation, but, as I said before, are glazed. Why and when we cannot 
now say, but I do not think there can be much conjecture ; light, no 
doubt, was the object sought. The old builders may have done it, 
