to the presbytery, Byland had, as it were,a continuous aisle, running west as well as east of thetransept, and east as well as north and south of thechoir. This transverse eastern choir aisle may very cloister and the passage there, and at Beaulieu, and also atCiteaux and Clairvaulx, may have been… … BYLAND ABBEY. WEST END. probably have been intended, like the eastern chapelor transept at Fountains, to supply sites for additionalaltars. At the western end there was, as at Fountains,a narthex or galilee, and the corbels of the lean-to roof may still be seen. As late as 1426 one WilliamTirplady…
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