GLASTONBURY ABBEY. kL3 
remains of panel work of much later date, probably 
the remains of a clerestory. The north side of the 
presbytery is nearly gone, but of the south, seven 
bays still remain, differing from those in the nave, 
the windows having pointed arches both externally 
and internally. The last two bays to the east, present 
a very different arrangement both of mouldings 
and plans from the others, and may perhaps have 
been the Lady Chapel, which was not invariably at 
at the east end ofthe building; particularly as the 
ground rises immediately to the east of the pres- 
bytery, hardly affording room for the foundations of 
any building larger than a small apsis, with which 
the east end perhaps terminated, as is the case 
with many churches of about the same date, as 
Easton, near Winchester, built by Henry de Blois, 
and Tidmarsh, in Berkshire, which is an early 
English building of rather later date than this part 
of Glastonbury. Abbot Walter de Monnington is said 
to have added two arches to the presbytery about 
4.D. 1374; but if these two bays are his work, they 
are a wonderfully successful imitation of an earlier 
style than that which prevailed in his time. The 
whole of this vast edifice, though very similar both 
in ornament and style to St. Joseph’s chapel, is of 
rather later date, and no doubt the work of Fitz- 
Stephen, who was sent down by king Henry II to 
superintend the rebuilding of the church, after the 
conflagration, which had, with the exception of the 
tower, destroyed the whole church erected by 
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