Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: two of which on the south, forming the Black Prince’s chantry, are enclosed in the portion devoted to the use of the French congregation. Beyond the transepts, the two eastern hays of the central alley of the crypt are enclosed on three sides by graceful screenwork of stone, to form the chapel of
Our Lady Undercroft.‘ Professor Willis observes that here, as at the east ends of the crypts at Winchester and Worcester, radiating vaulting arches are employed. Five arches spring from each of the two eastern columns. Beyond the massive eastern piers, runs the Apsidal Ambulatory of Ernulf’s crypt. Flanking the Ambulatory are the crypts beneath the chapels of St. Andrew on the north, and St. Anselm on the south, both of them containing apsidal chapels of great beauty. Eastward of Ernulf s apsidal Ambulatory, stands the later and loftier crypt of William the Englishman. WEST END OF ERNULF’S CRYPT. Upon entering the crypt, through a well moulded Norman doorway, we notice the northward recessing of the wall; caused by Ernulf’s building being wider than Lanfranc’s. On the south, the first and almost the only details our eyes can discern, in the obscurity, are texts of Scripture, in the French language, painted upon the shoulders of the arches, east and west of the great piers of the north aisle, into which we enter. These remind us that seven bays of Ernulf’s crypt, forming the entire space west of Archbishop Morton’s tomb, were granted for the use of the French Protestants, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Perhaps light from the nearest of the north Archaeological Journal, xx., 90, note 3. K. ? IJJ o t I X O windows (three of which were inserted early in the fifteenth century, each having three cinque-foiled lights, and in its sill a stone bench), ma…
