Newlands Chapel

86 NEWLANDS CHAPEL. arch, except for a few inches only below the cap. The respond has not enough projection from the wall to allow of a pier with the shafts being formed in it in the usual way, and the latter growing, as it were, out of the wall with no intervening pier arris would have had a bad effect. The heads of the windows are unfortunately in every case wanting, so whether they were round or pointed cannot be known. Those in the east wall shew by their jambs that they were capable of being closed, but the others have no rebate and were always apparently open. The piscina has already been mentioned as being of the pointed arch form. The shelf, of oak, must be the original one, because, being let into the wall at the ends, it could not have been got into .position after the walls were built. It is, of course, equally impossible to get it out.