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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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centre window is gone, its majestic pro-portions and much of its rich moulding remain toappeal to the unlearned, while the trained eye andeducated imagination of the architect can restore,almost at a glance, the vast web of Early Decoratedwork which once made it a chief glory of its date.The return walls, alas! are gone, and the only remnantof the church now visible above ground is the bareand unsupported curtain of this glorious facade. Inits width of seventy feet were included two aisles,each with a window of three lights. The mouldingsof these windows, as of the centre, are very rich,—oak-leaves predominating in the former and vines in thelatter. The whole is supported by four deep andmassive buttresses, of which the corner ones aregrouped each with two others in a cluster of three.All the buttresses have crockets and finials ; butwhereas the one at the north is plain, that at thesouth is elaborate with trefoil and quatrefoil pan-nelling. Each of the intermediate buttresses has a
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Bolton, Guisborough, and Kirkliam. 61 now teriantless niche with crocketed canopy, thebases being level with that of the great window.Above each buttress there rises from the main wall acrocketed octagonal spire. Over the centre window,and also above the indications of the vaulting, isanother window of five lights, viz. one quatrefoilheaded with two trefoil on either side of it. The west end of the church has been revealed bydigging, and in the well-kept garden there still re-mains a bit of the cellar under the Frater. This,how ever, probably did not, as was supposed, commu-nicate with the cloister. There is every indicationthat the arch in that direction was merely a cupboard,and a groove for a shelf is very apparent. Oppositeis a square-headedopening which hasbeen blocked up inlater times. Butneither was this adoorway, as a care-ful observation ofthe chamfer willshow. There islittle doubt that itwas in reality a frater - hole, orhatch, for serviceof provisions, anda correspondingone

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