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souther!'!. Ai de tower and meas u ri ng five feet two inches in he1ght
and t wo fe et four i n ches in width at top and bottom
At tb e distance of fourteen feet three inches from the
doorway in t he north waJ 1 ab OVE; described there j s another very
beaut iful do orwa.y composed of several con~entric semicircular
littl e ar cbes r~slng above one another towards the outside.
The i nteri or part o f this doorway j s now quadrangular (but this
part 1.s certa i n ly modern) and measures six feet ten inches in
height and t hre e feet two ar.d a half inches in width.
The nex t di vi s i on to tht a on the outs ide is eight feet eight
inches j n he ight but its bread t h cannot b e determined; the aecond
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division is nine feet in helght a nd four feet ten inches in width'
the third di vi s ion ni n e feet eight inches by six feet; the fourth'
nine feet e lev e n inc he s by six feet four inches; the fj fth ten
fee t seven inc hes by seven feet eight inches; and the sixth divisi on, w~ic h i s the outermost and highest, is eleven feet six
inches in hei ght a nd about nine feet two inches in width but the
western s tdp. is destrl"ye d a nd the wIdth can only be obtained by
calculation .
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Over the s quare part of this doorway 1s a rude representation
of a Jion a nd a centaur taking aim at him with a bow and arrow.
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Opposit e this in the south wall there is another doorway
(l OW stopped u p wit b r ough masonwo rk; it measures on the inside
eight feet onA inc h in hej ght a n d thr(;':e feet six inches in width
but its dime ns ions lessen to~ards the outs ide.
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There a re four niches in the ~orth wall of the nave and
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eac h about five feet ten and a halt
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Inc hes in he ight ~nd tw o feet eight and a half inches in width
and three ni ches in each of the sidewalls of the choir. Gilt
shtues st ood in these nIches according to tr9.di t lon, and tho
pre sent gui de or keeper of the rock asserts that he saw some
of t hem in g ood preservation. The floor over tha nave rests
on seven ar ches wh 1 ch are perfectly semi c 1 rcular. and is about
twenty four feet in height from the level of the floor.
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The we st gable contains a rcundhea1ed doorway which communicates with the great Cathed ral but it is not original and it
1s no w imposs i ble to ascertain whetber t here was an original
doorway he re or not.
There were three semi-circular headed windows on the same
gahle but th ey are now bui 1 t up except the middle one. which
opened about ten years since by Archdeacon Cotton.
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