Fig. 1222.—Carmelite Friars’ Monastery.
East Window.
walls (see Fig. [1214]). It has a south transept projecting 22 feet 9 inches and 25 feet in width. The crossing is separated from the three limbs of the church by projecting piers (Fig. [1216]) carrying round arches, above which rises the central tower. When the masonry which blocked up the archway leading into the choir was lately taken down, it was found that there had been a parapet about 3 feet high separating the crossing from the choir. The responds of the massive parapet coping were discovered wrought on the stones of the piers on either side. The choir and crossing only have stone vaults. These are barrel vaults, as shown in the view of the choir (Fig. [1217]), where the vault is pointed, and in the crossing (see Fig. [1216]), where it is round and at right angles to that of the choir, from which it is cut off and separated by the tower arch. The springing of the tower arches is kept below that of the vault over the crossing, as is usually done, in similar circumstances, in late structures, so as to avoid the difficulties of groined vaulting. The roof covering of the choir is of large overlapping stones, wrought after the manner so often found in the castles and churches of the fifteenth century. A wide gutter runs along the eaves (Fig. [1218]), from which the water escapes by numerous gargoyles.
There was a pointed entrance door in the south wall (Figs. [1219] and [1220]) at the west end of the nave, and leading into the choir there is a
| Fig. 1223.—Carmelite Friars’ Monastery. Window in Choir. | Fig. 1224.—Carmelite Friars’ Monastery. West Window of Nave (now destroyed). |
round-arched door (Fig. [1221]), which is, however, lintelled in the interior (see Fig. [1217]). In the opposite wall a door leading to the cloisters has the reverse arrangement, being round-arched in the inside and lintelled on the exterior, where, on its west jamb, there is a Maltese cross. A similar cross is visible on the west side of the transept near the south end. There was a door into the cloisters from the crossing (see Fig. [1215]) and another existed from the nave.
The windows of the choir (Figs. [1222] and [1223]) are all pointed, and filled with the simplest tracery. Those of the nave and transept (Figs. [1224] and [1225]) have square heads formed of straight arches, as shown in the detailed drawings. These windows have cusped tracery, which, in the nave, remained entire to the last, while that of the transept window (Fig. [1226]) was destroyed, the tracery having been cleared out to make a cart entrance; but sufficient indications existed to permit of its restoration. There are various small cusped windows throughout the church, including the small one already referred to in the north wall of the choir, that window and a high straight headed one in the tower being the only church windows in the north side. The two upper windows in the east
Fig. 1225.—Carmelite Friars’ Monastery. Window in Transept.