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 CHAP. IV. PRAMBANAN. 437 Another triple cell structure about a mile south-west of Prambanan is that of Chandi Sari, which from its design and decoration Sir T. Stamford Raffles conceived to be a palace; other writers consider it to have been the monastery of a temple half a mile south, known as Chandi Kali - Bening, near Kalasan. Either way, as will be seen from the illustrations (Plate LI 1 1. and Woodcut No. 485), it is a very remarkable building of two storeys and an attic. The timber floors were carried on the stone corbelling, shown in section, being reached probably by wooden staircases now gone. The most interesting portion in the elevation is the attic storey with the dormer win- dows, the earliest examples of. that feature. The structure measures 54 ft. frontage by 31 ft. deep ; the ground storey was about 12 ft. 6 in. high and the upper storey 9 ft., the whole being raised on a base- ment 7 ft. 7 in. high, the total height to the top of the original stone roof being about 40 ft. There were two windows on each storey of the side eleva- tion, the examples in the rear being deep sunk niches only, and three dormers and on the back or west front : the windows of the ground storey were all closed with solid masonry. As it has retained its stone roof with sufficient remains of its rich decoration to allow of the conjectural restoration in Ijzerman's work, Chandi Kali-Bening is probably the best pre- served temple in Java. Its plan is cruciform like those of Loro Jonggrang and Sewu, with central cell and porch and three other cells, the entrance width each way being 66 ft. The height to the top of the principal cornice which runs at the same level round porch, central square, and side cells is 33 ft., Feet Plan and 5ection of chandi Sa n.