without cutting through the east wall of the transept, half of the arrangement is preserved on each side, and the whole can be recovered.
St. Mary's, Shrewsbury. A Choir; B B Transept; C Arch cut through; D Nave; E E Chapels.
When the semicircular apse went out of use, it does not seem to have become at all usual to employ the polygonal form in this position. I am not aware of any examples where a polygonal apse occurs possessing anything like the importance of the semicircular ones at Romsey. Smaller ones occur at Patrington, Yorkshire, and in Lincoln Cathedral. The apse much more usually grows into a chapel of considerable size, such as occur at Canterbury, Bristol, and many other large churches. In Chichester Cathedral, too, the apse attached to the north transept has given way to a large quadrangular chapel in the Lancet style. The most singular instance I know is at St. David's.[1] Here the end of each transept is occupied by three arches, forming very nearly a continuous arcade; but of these, the inner pair
- ↑ I greatly regret having no drawing to illustrate this. A view will be given in the forthcoming fourth part of the "History and Antiquities of St. David's."
