Fig. 582.—St. Mungo’s Cathedral. Effigy in Lower Church.
In the northmost chapel is the entrance to the chapter house, which corresponds in style with the lower church ([Fig. 583]), and has apparently been built about the same period. The main wall shafts of the chapter house ([Fig. 584]), with their rounded and moulded caps and bases, correspond with those of the lower church, and the windows are also of corresponding design (see [Fig. 597]), except that the external bases of the window shafts are of a later date. The chapter house would appear to have been left incomplete for a long period, and to have been heightened and finished in the fifteenth century, as will be pointed out. The doorway (see [Fig. 583]), which is in the first pointed style and very ornamental, was evidently designed to give access to it.
Fig. 584.—St. Mungo’s Cathedral.
Details of Wall Shafts of Chapter House.
The plain cross vaulting of the side aisles of the lower church corresponds with the piers of the subdivided bays, and on the exterior, opposite each intermediate pillar (see [Fig. 568]), there is a buttress of lesser dimensions than the main buttresses opposite the main piers.
Fig. 585.—St. Mungo’s Cathedral. South Doorway to Lower Church.