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 136 ST. MARY S CHURCH, NUN-MONKTON, YORKSHIRE. is supported on two massive square piers, with arches on the three sides ; that on the east being extremely lofty, and reaching above the centre lancet into the part above enclosed for the reception of the bells. It is to be regretted that the effect of the interior is very much destroyed by the lowering of the roof, the introduction of a modern groined plaster ceiling, and the stopping up of the upper part of the eastern arch of the tower. In the view given these have been removed. Interior of the West End, shewing the Tower and part of the North Side. The walls are massive, and in their thickness there is a triforium passage, carried completely round the north, west, and south sides ; it is entered by a staircase in the north-west ano-le, and communicates Avith the belfry stair. At the east end it is carried past the present cast wall (which is of late date) to the outside, where the wall is broken off. Into this passage the windows open, they arc plain lancets on the out-