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floor which was said to mark the tomb of the Founder, Hugo 

 de Morville, and his wife, can be only very partially traced. The 

 apartment is lighted at its eastern end by live pointed, deeply 

 countersplayed windows; three in the E. wall, of which the 

 centre window is the largest, and one in each of the N. and S. 

 walls. The W. wall is pierced by two wide, round-headed 

 windows, each of which is divided into two pointed lights by 

 three pairs of capitaled shafts. Between these windows is a 

 very fine semicircular-headed doorway, opening to the cloisters.* 

 Externally, it is composed of four orders ; the three outer ones 

 consisting of a series of rolls and hollows, (the most prominent 

 of the rolls being pointed) rising from disengaged shafts having 

 transition capitals with square abaci ; and the inner exhibiting, 

 on both its external and soffit planes, a large tooth-moulding 

 carried continuously down the jambs in a wide hollow between 

 pointed edge-rolls. (Fig. 19.) The daylight measures 10 feet 

 by 4 feet 10 inches. 



Fig. 19. 



Superincumbent on the chapter-house was a gabled apartment 

 which some suppose to have been the Library, or Scriptorium. 

 It must have been similar in form to the chamber beneath, but 

 not quite so long, as its west gable, instead of resting upon the 



* The cloisters being on a higher level than the Chapter House, there 

 must have been a Hight of steps, possibly of wood, leading up through this 

 doorway, if it was ever used as such, and was not a merely ornamental 

 feature, or window. 



