By Harold Brakspear, F.8.A. 



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with a stone vault, which necessitated a wider wall next the court. 

 Instead of re-building the small portion of the one bay already 

 begun, from the foundations, the next course above the plinth 

 externally has been corbelled out and the piers to carry the vault 

 internally are set at the extreme edge of ,the seat. The vaulting 

 is of a rich lierne type with carved bosses at the intersections, but 

 the curves of the ribs being depressed segments give it an awkward 

 appearance. The window towards the court, of the free bay, is of 

 four lights with tracery of a curious transitional character. These 

 two bays are carried up to form an apartment over, which will be 

 described later. 



The rest of the south walk was proceeded with directly after the 

 completion of the two western bays, but in a fully developed 15th 

 century style. 1 Externally each bay has a four-light window, with 

 tracery under a four- centred arched label, and is divided from its 

 neighbour by a boldly projecting buttress. The windows seem 

 never to have been glazed, except in the tracery. The courses of 

 the vaulting ribs follow those of the window arch, and each severy 

 is divided into the same lierne pattern as the earlier bays. The 

 vault is supported next the church wall on moulded piers projecting 

 18 inches from the wall line, which also carry wall arches that cut 

 across the earlier openings without any attempt being made to work 

 these into the later design. The western prooession doorway 

 occurred where one of these wall piers should have been, and, as it 

 was necessary to retain the door for use, a narrow buttress was 

 carried up each jamb of the original opening and supported a flat 

 lintel from which the vaulting sprang abruptly. This arrangement 

 has been almost entirely obliterated in recent times, by continuing 

 the vaulting downwards and forming a new pier beneath to match 

 the others. In 1828 a new doorway was inserted in the church 

 wall which has entirely destroyed the east jamb of the original 

 door. Between the wall arches and under the windows towards 

 the court are continuous stone seats. In houses of canons and 



1 Although the style of the west bays and the rest of the south walk are so 

 dissdmilar they were apparently built by the same masons, as the same masons' 

 marks occur on stones in both sections of the work. 



