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ELEVATIONS. 
I have previously observed, that I consider the half width 
of the nave to be a normal scale, which, increased or de- 
creased in geometrical progression, will be found to deter- 
mine the general features of the plan, and in some instances 
of the elevation. The extreme difficulty and expense attend- 
ing the obtainment of correct geometrical drawings, render 
it impossible to produce many examples ; the object of this 
paper is, however, to excite inquiry, and not to sustain my 
theory dogmatically. 
The normal scale of York Cathedral is 53 feet, (the whole 
width of the nave being 106 feet.) Britton gives the mea- 
sured height of the western tower as 172 feet 3 inches. Now 
53 X 3^ times == 172 feet 3 inches, (i.e. within one inch.) 
Again, Britton gives 198 feet as the total height of the 
central tower, and 53 x 3| times ==198 feet 9 inches ! the 
apex of the canopy over the great western window is 106 
feet high, or 53 x 2 ; the apex of the gable is 119 feet 3 
inches high, or 53 x 2^ ; the distance between the main but- 
tresses of the central tower is 53 feet; the distance between the 
western towers, just below the cornice, is 53 feet ; the height 
and width of the light of the great western window (that is, 
the head) is 26 feet six inches, or half of 53 feet. It may 
also l)e mentioned, that almost the whole of the horizontal 
lines on the western front occur at distances of 53 feet, or 
its subdivisions in geometrical progression. Can this be 
chance ? The transept of Beverley Minster will be found to 
embody the same principles, and to have the same symme- 
trical arrangement. 
Taking the side of a square of half the width of the 
transept internally, (or the diameter of a circle of the same 
extent,) as the normal scale, and applying it vertically on 
the elevation, we have the following result : the first line (see 
the numbers, plate 2, No. 13) cuts the apex of the aisle 
