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Rh domed—the courses of masonry having parallel joints, and running in nearly straight lines from rib to rib. The vaulting shafts are as usual stopped upon corbels not far below the triforium string; and the larger members of the lower piers are consequently again arranged with reference

FIG. 87. to the arch orders only, while very slender shafts are inserted between the larger ones, for which there are no corresponding members in the archivolt. Here, then, once more, as almost constantly in Anglo-Norman pointed architecture, the employment of structural members was largely governed by decorative motives without a logical regard to functional consistency.

The clerestory of the Presbytery is a variation of the earlier pointed Norman type, and consists of four open arches surmounted by tracery in each plane—the inner plane having