h we now admire had noexistence for those who kept the sacred hours dayand night within these walls. The whole church, says Mr. Micklethwaite, wasdivided into parts in a manner which is, I believe, quitepeculiar to the Cistercians. The aisles were cut off fromthe nave by solid stone walls, built… … have been pierced. The transverse divisions seem to haveresembled those of Benedictine and collegiate churches,but I have found full evidence of them only at Fountains.There was a pulpiium of stone taking up the space of onebay at the entrance of the choir ; a bay west of it was therood screen,…
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