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semi-circular headed lights, of great beauty, the 
two side lights of which have been filled up with 
tracery of a much later date. The south side is 
similar to the north, but the entrance is less 
elaborate; a door of much later date has been 
opened in the south-eastern bay of the chapel. 
The basement of the interior is occupied, as exter- 
nally, by an intersecting arcade, the vaulting 
springing from large shafts between each bay, at the 
level of the string course under the windows, which 
appear to have been filled with tracery of alater date. 
Each compartment of the arcade has been painted; 
the design of the decoration, as far as can be seen, 
was a trefoiled arch, in the spandrils of which are 
depicted a crescent and an estoile, or it may be a 
asun. This symbol is a very ancient one of the 
Messiah and the blessed Virgin ; but it also occurs 
in some ofthe coins of the Plantaganet kings of 
England, and may perhaps refer to their visits to 
Glastonbury ; it has also, when combined with the 
square, a masonic meaning, which I am not at 
liberty to divulge.—Under the chapel is a crypt 
which extends also under part of the ante-chapel. 
Immediately to the west of the south-eastern turret, 
is a door-way of later character than the rest of the 
crypt, leading to a very curious well, surmounted 
by a low semi-circular arch. There was also an 
external entrance, communicating with this well 
by a flight of steps. This chapel from the style 
of its architecture, which is Norman, of so late a 
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