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of late Norman character ; the angle of each order 
is moulded into a bold three quarter round, and 
over each is a plain dripstone, supported by corbel 
heads. The entrance on this side, was by a most 
elaborate door-way, in the second bay from the 
west, occupying the whole space between the but- 
tresses, the arch being enriched with four series of 
medallions, exhibiting many curious varieties of cos- 
tume; the second and fourth series are supported by 
shafts having early English bases and capitals, with 
the square abacus; the first and third are continued 
to the level of the bases, where they terminate in 
a plain square, rising from a simple chamfer of the 
same shape. Over the door-way is a pediment 
formed of two bold rounds of different sizes, divided 
by a hollow. At each corner of the chapel stands 
a turret, which is little more than an enlarged but- 
tress, having shafts at the angles, supporting at the 
level of the cormnice, a bold string course, above 
which is an intersecting arcade, the shafts of which 
have no abacus. The turrets are covered with a 
pyramidal roof of ashler work, the cornice moulding 
of which is very rich; the upper compartment of 
each turret is pierced, on the east and west sides, 
with openings of a form common in early English 
and decorated buildings. 
The west front is of similar character to the north 
side, the arcade filling up the space between the 
turrets (of which that at the south-west angle is in 
a state of total ruin,) and supporting a triplet of 
