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EST END AND SOUTH TRANSEPT] The #West Front#. A unique feature of this
church is its west front. It is one of singular beauty, but its beauty
does not depend on any enrichment of decoration, for a simpler front it
would be impossible to find: there is not a single carved stone about
it. Its beauty is due to the exquisite proportions of the various parts.
The nave and aisles are of the same length. At the corners of the aisles
are rectangular buttresses and two similar ones stand at the ends of the
main walls of the nave. String-courses, starting from the aisle
buttresses, run below the aisle windows and round the buttresses of the
nave, but are not continued across the nave beneath the lancet windows.
The buttresses do not quite rise to the full height of the side walls of
the nave, and not a pinnacle is to be met with anywhere. The sill of the
west window is about fifteen feet from the ground, and from it three
tall lancets about four feet wide rise to a height of nearly thirty
feet. They are placed under a comprising pointed arch, just beneath the
point of which, and over the central lancet, is a cinquefoil opening.
The wall finishes in a gable and the whole west wall is a true
termination of the nave which lies behind. We notice that the glass is
set well towards the outside of the openings, and also that no western
doorway exists or ever existed here. The probable reason of this is that
it was a nuns' church, and that the nuns found their way into the church
from the domestic buildings through the doors on the south side. There
is still a doorway (there was formerly a porch) on the north side, by
which, on special occasions, outsiders were admitted to the north aisle,
but as the parishioners had no right of entry into the nave it was
unnecessary to make any provision for them in the form of a west
doorway. From this position at the west of the building we notice that
the roof of the south end of the transept differs from that at the north
end. We can see no tiles above the parapet. Originally, no doubt, all
the roofs had a high