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Chapter V: CURVILINEAR.—The monks had now done all they meant to do. The eastern

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limb was rebuilt. They meant to do no more in the nave. But their hands were forced. Five Norman bays collapsed on the south side of the nave in 1323, and the monks had perforce to rebuild them. The design is closely assimilated to that of the Lancet bays to the west; the clerestory actually having lancet windows without tracery. To this period belong the shrines of St. Alban and St. Amphibalus, the Rood-screen, the doorway and arcade of the cloister.

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English Cathedrals IllustratedChapter V: CURVILINEAR.—The monks had now done all they meant to do. The eastern

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