In like manner, an arrangement is sometimes found which forms a link between the arrangement of Sompting and that of Oxford Cathedral. On the north side of Brecon Priory and the south of Llanthony,—the other side in each has been tampered with—we can make out the original arrangement, which was of this kind. The chapels might be as well considered as attached to the presbytery as to the transept, were it not that the two arches connecting them with the latter, though not strictly a continuous arcade, are much more prominent than the small arches a a, connecting them with the presbttery. Both at Brecon and Llanthony this arrangement of two small chapels has given way to a single very large one, of later date.
Brecon Priory Church, A Presbytery. B B Transepts, C Tower, D Site of Rood Loft, E Nave. F Site of Cloister.
We also find that the old system of attaching chapels to transepts, and that of forming them in their eastern aisles, often run very much into one another. Thus, at Tintern and Wenlock, the transepts have regular eastern
