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[architec]ture. The round and pointed arches occur in the doors
and windows. The fine clustered Gothic, and the heavy plain Saxon
pillars stand contrasted. The walls show excellent masonry, are
in many places counter-arched, and the ruins discover a strong
cement. The east window has been noble; and some of the painted
glass that once adorned it, is preserved in a window in
Windermere church. On the outside of the window, under an arched
festoon, is the head of the founder, and opposite to it that of
Maud his queen, both crowned and well executed. In the south
wall, and east end of the church, are four seats adorned with
Gothic ornaments. In these the officiating priest, with his
attendants, sat at intervals during the solemn service of high
mass. In the middle space, where the first barons of Kendal are
interred, lies a procumbent figure of a man in armour,
cross-legged. The chapter-house has been a noble room of sixty
feet by forty-five. The vaulted roof, formed of twelve ribbed
arches, was supported by six pillars on two rows, at thirteen
feet distance from each other. Now supposing each of the pillars
to be two feet in diameter, the room would be divided into three
alleys, or passages, each thirteen feet wide. On entrance, the
middle one only could be seen, lighted by a pair of tall pointed
windows at the upper end of the room;
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