THE ARCHITECTURAL MUSEUM. 
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The catalogue is again faulty. It describes this work as “orig¬ 
inally forming a series of stalls, perhaps from St. Sepulchre’s 
Chapel or other part of the Minster.’’ 
It would be impossible, in the limited time at my disposal this 
afternoon, to give a description of the building, decoration and 
destruction of this sumptuous Reredos. 
Many other exhibits claim attention, as for instance, portions of 
the columns forming the entrance to the Chapter House of the 
Monastery, together with a complete arch and fragments of two 
others adorned with 12th century enrichments. There are ex¬ 
quisitely carved bosses from the vaulted roof of the abbey church ; 
capitals with Norman, Transitional, Early English and Decorated 
sculpture ; fragments of the wall arcading of the cloisters, large 
portions of which’ have been rescued from the rockeries and re¬ 
erected at the end of the new Museum Hall, (see Plate III.) 
Attached to the pillars supporting the new Lecture Theatre are 
the great sculptured stone figures found under the floor of the 
abbey church, previously alluded to. The complete jamb and 
sills of a choir clerestory window, and along with it is an iron 
“saddle bar"; several fragments of tracery work forming the 
open triforia above the choir arcade ; moulded angles and traceried 
head of one of the four corner stair turrets of the great central 
tower, together with a number of moulded arch stones, vaulting 
ribs and shafting, collected during the recent excavations, are 
exhibited at the west end of the Hall. In the Show Case are 
preserved the smaller and valuable specimens, including carved 
“ knots ” of foliage from capitals, portions of statues from St. 
William’s Shrine, hands of a young knight, together with portions 
of crocheting and pinnacle from his canopied tomb ; painted floor 
tiles and plaster-work, stained glass, combs and rings, pottery and 
glass-ware. This valuable collection is the outcome of great care 
and watchfulness observed during the progress of the recent ex¬ 
cavations. The value of the fragments cannot be over-estimated ; 
many of the moulded stones have thrown new light on some of the 
architectural features of the abbey church which were otherwise 
merely conjectural. 
Not only are evidences of the past glory of St. Mary’s Abbey 
stored here, but we have portions of the Norman sculptured door¬ 
way and wall arcading from St. William’s Chapel, which until 
1809 stood at the end of the old Ouse Bridge (the site being 
occupied by a great drapery establishment). A view of this door- 
