Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 262
for the infirmity and old age of the inmates, took a scale and sumptuous-ness which was in unison with the monastic system of design. AtCanterbury, Norwich, and especially at Ely,- are the remains of thegreat twelfth-century halls, which formed the body of this accommoda- In two aisles vaulted… … GOTHIC ART tion, double aisled, lOO ft. long by 40 ft. wide at Ely, at Canterbury150 ft. by 72 ft., (fig. 186) with moulded arcades and lofty clerestory.Eastward, as the chancel to this nave, opened the chapel—a plan-ning that passed on into thedesign of separately foundedhospitals, as that of St.…
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