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College Chapel at Cambridge. The building is of the width of the choir
and aisles together. It contained three altars at the date of the
suppression of monasteries, "upon each altar a Table of the Passion of
Christ, Gilt."

The central bay has been recently fitted up for early celebrations of
the Holy Communion. The junction of this addition with the original
Norman apse is admirable, and should be specially noticed. Parts of the
original external stringcourse of the apse can be seen. The
ornamentation on the bosses of the roof, and in the cavetto below the
windows, and round the great arches from the choir aisles, is very
varied. It must be sufficient here to indicate some of the designs. Most
need little explanation, but a few are hard to understand. On the roof
may be seen the three lions of England, a cross between four martlets,
three crowns each pierced by an arrow, and another design. The smaller
designs include four-leaved flowers, Tudor roses, fleurs-de-lys, the
portcullis, some undescribable creatures, crossed keys, crossed swords,
crossed crosiers, crosses, crowns, crowns pierced with arrows, crowned
female heads, an eagle, the head of the Baptist in a charger, an angel,
mitres, three feathers rising from a crown, S. Andrew's cross, and
perhaps others. There are also some rebuses, and some lettering. On the
north wall, in six several squares, are the letters of the name Ashton
interwoven with scrolls; the letters AR before a church, and a bird on a
tun occur more than once. This certainly refers to Abbot Robert Kirton;
but what the bird means is not clear. In the moulding over the large
arch to the south choir aisle are four sets of letters. They form the
last verse of the psalter. The words are contracted: they stand for
_Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum_.

=The Transepts=, including the arch to the aisles, are of four bays,
and, as has before been pointed out, are of precisely the same character
as the work in the choir. The central piers here are octagonal. All
round the Norman portion of the church, below the windows, is an arcade
of round arches with simple round mouldings and plain cushion capitals:
in the transepts these have not intersecting heads, as in the choir and
nave. The western sides of the transepts have no proper triforium, but a
passage runs along in front of the windows in the triforium range. The
chapels to the east have Perpendicular screens. In the north transept
those three chapels