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cathedrals of later date, (Romsey is a transition example.) I 
would, however, observe with respect to Romsey, that if we 
had taken a circle or square of the whole width of the nave, 
it would not have answered, although in small Norman 
churches icithout aisles, such as Adel, near Leeds, and Kil- 
peck, Herefordshire, the length of the nave is about two 
squares or circles of the whole width. 
The width of the nave of York Cathedral is 106 feet 
(within the walls.) Taking a circle of 53 feet diameter (or 
half the width of the nave) we have the following result : — 
Nave, 4 circles, = 212 Feet. 
Tower, 1 ditto = 53 „ 
Choir, 4 ditto of 50 feet = 200 „ 
An unequal portion at the East end 19 „ 
484 
N.B. Britton gives 486 feet as the total internal length of 
the cathedral. 
The transepts of York project in each case one circle of 
53 feet from the external walls. By reference to the illustra- 
tion, plate 1, No. 12, it will be seen that this mode determines 
the true position of all the columns, the size of the central 
tower, the centre of the windows and buttresses, and, in fact, 
all the important points in the Ichnography or plan. As this 
principle (of which I claim the r^-discovery) gives the true 
symmetrical arrangement, it is evidently of practical utility ; 
and the facility and certainty which it gives in planning a 
sacred edifice, may be imagined by the fact, that the laying 
down the plan of York Minster accompanying this paper, 
took me but one hour and a quarter. 
I must not omit mentioning, that the nave, the transepts, 
and the choir, were erected at different periods; and as the 
symmetrical arrangement is observable throughout, it goes 
