Fig. 378. Lady Chapel, Southwark.
In the choir of the same church we have an excellent specimen of clerestory vaulting, with oblong compartments and stilted side-cells, worked in a manner somewhat different from the usual ploughshare system.
In the eastern half of Westminster Abbey, including the transepts, we have the vaulting of the oblong space (with ploughshare side cells), and of the square space, and of the four-sided space of all degrees of irregularity; we have apses of two dimensions, viz., the great apse of the Sanctuary and those of the radiating chapels, which are as beautiful specimens of the apse vault as can be found; we have, in the Chapter-house, the vaulted octagon, with central pillar carried out in noble proportions and with excellent detail;[58] while in the crypt below is a repetition of the same vaulting, of depressed proportions, and carried out with the severest simplicity.
Fig. 379.—St. Faith’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. View looking East.
We have in its inner vestibule two oblong vaults