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26-i ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF way. The two large Decorated windows are quite near the east end, and, while the cloister remained against this side of the nave, must, from their height in the wall, have had very much the appearance of a clerestor}'. But b}^ far the greater part of the wall is left blank ; possibly in the original nave there were no windows at all on the north side.^ If there were any, they must, from the level of the string, have been placed quite as high in the wall as the present ones, and from the same cause, namel}"" the position of the cloister, just as at Leonard Stanley. On the south side the string is continued a little way, but is cut through by the arches into the subsequent south aisle. The Xorman nave then was without aisles, and exactl}^ corresponded with the present one. Going east of the chancel arch, we find the Norman Extent of the ^^Hs of tlio navc continued for a little way on Choir. Q^^^ g^^jg^ g^j-^j marked by the same string. A rude arch on each side has been cut through the wall, but evidently, as jIr. Addington says, at quite a late period. There was originally a solid wall on each side up to the point where the Decorated arches of the choir now commenced.^ The south wall was an external one, and the external plinth may still be seen in the south aisle. But to the north there was a building attached which had a west door opening to the cloister, which still remains. At present this is part of the north choir aisle ; but we must remember that, when originally built, there was a solid wall between it and the choir, so that, whatever it was, it was not in strictness an aisle. This part of the church has been much tampered with by the insertion of a late and ugly window, and the addition of an awkward buttress (at c), apparently when the cloisters were destroyed. Probably some considerable portion of the conventual buildings abutted upon the church at this point. Thus much is the whole extent of the undoubtedly Transi- tional work, contemporaneous with the chancel arch. The extent and finish of the choir is not clear from our evidence. Did it actually terminate at this point, possibly with the addition of an apse ? or was it continued to a considerable distance eastwards 1 Mr. Addington has marked out as the eastern boundary of the Norman choir a point (d) to which we shall have again to refer ; but we shall soon see that if ' At Monkfon there is only one window in insertions. Did they supplant a similar one! the north side of the nave, in the position - This wall is expressed in the plan by occupied at Dorchester by the Decorated dotted lines.