The plan shows a nave and aisles of five bays, large transeptal chapels, and an apsidal chancel projecting beyond the two square chapels by which it is flanked.
Only is the easternmost bay, opening to largetranseptal chapels, pointed and moulded.
One of the few good monuments is a fifteenth-century, south-eastern, transeptal chapel, with the remains of the gothic canopied tomb of the Seigneurs of Digoin.
Very often, where special chantry chapels were built, they took the position of transeptal chapels.
Moreover, the length of the nave remains unbroken from west wall to chancel arch: no central space is marked off to which these transeptal projections give emphasis.
There are, however, no transepts; but transeptal chapels are built out from the walls of the aisleless nave, west of the tower.
The church, which is almost entirely of the thirteenth century, has north and south transeptal chapels, and only a south aisle to the nave.
A comparison with the neighbouring church of Adderbury shows that the fabric of the transeptal chapels at Adderbury is largely of the twelfth century.
The nave has aisles with transeptal chapels, very regular and symmetrical in plan, but is continued beyond the opening of the transeptal projections by an aisleless bay, east of which comes the chancel arch.
There are a number of cases in which transeptal chapels have been kept from an earlier cruciform plan, in which they may have formed true transepts.
Oakham and Langham churches in Rutland have large transeptal chapels with western aisles: the north chapel at Langham was removed in the fifteenth century, when the aisles of the nave were widened.
Instances in which a transeptal chapel is aisled are even less common.
These chapels appear to be enlargements of earlier transeptal chapels; while the tower seems to have been built over the chancel of the earlier church.
Two transeptal chapels of the ordinary type are found in other Devonshire churches rebuilt in the fifteenth century, as at East Portlemouth: the Kirkham chapel at Paignton, famous for its carved stone-work, is transeptal.
These transeptal towers are peculiar to this church and the other on which he spent his enthusiasm, Exeter Cathedral.
The transeptal chapels were once brilliant with statuary and colour, but the axes and hammers of the image breakers have successfully purged them of their original glory.
The piers of the chancel andtranseptal arches are ornamented with foliage, and the chancel windows are large, with traceried transoms.
The body of the church probably corresponded in character with the two massivetranseptal towers.
Under the north rose of the transept is a large lancet of surpassing effect, and in the transeptal chapel, close by, is a window that is like a sublimated topaz.
The transeptal chapel to the north of the choir shows in its quatrefoils some interesting heads of men, women, and children.
The cathedral stands on the site of a Saxon church, of which no trace remains; and of the Norman edifice which succeeded it little is left but the two transeptal towers.
The two features which specially distinguish this from all other cathedrals are its transeptal towers, of which the only other English example is at Ottery St Mary; and the great length of its roof, which extends unbroken over nave and choir.
No church is wholly or even largely Norman; but the transeptal towers of Exeter Cathedral are of this period, as are the towers of South Brent, Ilfracombe, and Aveton Gifford, in addition to those named above.
Transeptal towers occur elsewhere in England only in the collegiate church of Ottery St Mary, in Devonshire, for which Exeter cathedral served as a model.
The window tracery is much varied; but each window answers to that on the opposite side of nave or choir; pier answers to pier, aisle to aisle, and chapel to chapel, while the transeptal towers complete the balance of parts.
The transeptal towers attest the magnificence of his scheme.
The shafts are of Purbeck marble, and the windows, arranged as in the nave, contain the last importation of glass from abroad, save that in the transeptal windows, used in the cathedral.
We have already seen that the two great towers of the cathedral were in their nature transeptal from the beginning.
The effect of these transeptal towers is so fine as to make us regret their rarity.
Again, by building transeptal towers and discarding the usual central tower, the interior escapes a danger it is often hard to overcome, the difficulty of holding up the central tower.
Their nave occupied the site of the present nave, the transeptal towers were the same, but the choir was shorter and probably terminated in an apse flanked by smaller apses at the ends of the choir aisles.
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