THE ARCHITECTURAL MUSEUM. 
2 3 
the erection of this Museum. There was some very beautiful work 
relegated to the rockeries. On Sharp's Plan the cloister wall 
arcading is indicated, and is no doubt correct, because in the 
lower room of the Hospitium a portion of the stone seat and base 
of this arcade is set up, and before the removal of the carved stones 
to the Architectural Museum a few of the crocheted parts were laid 
near the stone seat ; all the rest was presumably thought worthless. 
When we were clearing the stonework of rubbish, preparatory to 
laying the concrete floor of the lower hall, what appeared to be a 
panelled buttress adjoining the entrance to the vestibule attracted 
my attention, and, after carefully noting the mouldings, I searched 
the rockeries, where a large number of stones were seen, sketched 
and measured and fitted together on paper after the nature of a 
picture puzzle. Mr. Brook most kindly took up the work of gath¬ 
ering up the pieces, and superintended the reconstruction of this 
beautiful specimen of 14th century work. 
It is interesting to compare this with York and Lincoln Minsters. 
We know that the Master Mason of Lincoln was induced to come 
to York during the building of the Nave ; and by comparison it is 
evident he brought templates of his mouldings along with him. 
His influence seems to have found its way to the cloisters of the 
Abbey. 
We must now pass on from Cloister to Vestibule, in which are 
stored a wonderful mass of carved and moulded stonework, pre¬ 
senting an epitome of the sculptor's art of four centuries. The 
examples have, as far as practicable, been placed in chronological 
order, and a descriptive card accompanies them. 
A new catalogue will have to be compiled, as the existing one 
is in many instances incorrect in its description of the mediaeval 
fragments ; but, with a collection of some hundreds of fragments, 
it will be realized the task is not a light one. The collection has 
been gathered together with the very greatest care and devotion 
by Mr. Harvey Brook, and is without question the finest collection 
outside London, and it is to be hoped that both architectural 
students and others interested in the preservation of these frag¬ 
ments will take advantage and study the carving at first hand 
in preference to copying from books. 
The central feature of this glorious collection is the fragment of 
St. William’s Shrine, which formerly stood in the “Sanctum Sanc¬ 
torum ’’ behind the great Reredos and High Altar in the Minster. 
The Shrine was two tiers in height, and bearing some resemblance 
