towers being a long process, the navewas left intact meanwhile ; and as in this particularcase the work was never finished, we have the in-structive spectacle of a thirteenth-century west frontstanding close to the tall arch of a sixteenth-centurytower, which rises only to the height of the… … BOLTON PRIORY. Part See, however, Wordsworths Ecclesiastical Sonnets,II., Sonnet IV. as the chapel of the priory. The choir, it must beremembered, was separated from the nave by twovery solid screens extending respectively across theeastern and western arches of the tower. Of thesethe eastern,…
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