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date as to be fairly called transitional, I conceive 
to have been built by Henry de Blois, about A.D. 
1136, and to have been originally detached from 
the church,—my reasons for which supposition I 
will give afterwards. 
The part of the ruins to be now mentioned, as 
being next in antiquity to St. Joseph’s chapel, is 
the church itself. This magnificent building 
consisted of a choir or presbytery, (which in a con- 
ventualchurch was in factthe chancel,) tower, tran- 
septs and nave; the choir as well as the nave 
having north and south aisles. Of the nave 
nothing now remains but three bays on the south 
side, the chief peculiarity of which is, that the 
windows, which, unlike those of St. Joseph’s chapel, 
have externally pointed arches, are internally semi- 
eircular, with mouldings of Norman character, 
having shafts at the angles, with the square abacus, 
while those of the vaulting shafts are octagonal. 
The length of the nave from the steps, descending 
from the transepts, is about 185 feet, and the 
breadth about 96; on the south side of the nave, 
were situated the cloisters, of which nothing now 
remains..—Of the transepts little can be traced, 
beyond the remains of two small chapels on the 
north and south sides, and the majestic tower piers, 
two of which still remain, together with enough of 
one arch, to give us some idea of what the splen- 
dour of the church, when entire, must have been. 
On the eastern side of these piers may be seen the 
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