13S ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF CHAPELS EAST OF TRANSEPTS.

The best, iiulccd tlie only Eiiglisli, example ^Yllicll occurs to me at this moment, of a church ^Yith a semicircular apse still remaining attached to the east face of each transept, is to be found in the Abbey church of Homsey. Tewkesbury- retains one in the south transept, the northern one being occupied by other buildings. Of instances in Normandy, Mr. Cotman and ][r. Petit supply me with two noble ones, St. Georges Bocherville, and ISt. Nicholas, at Caen, in the latter of which the apse is remarkable for a high stone roof. Of cases where only vestiges remain of what has been, I may mention the two Metropolitan Cathedrals and that of Chichester, in all of which, Professor Willis has shown that the same arrangement as llomsey existed in the original Norman churches before their enlargement. In Leominster Prior}^^ too, the recent excavations have brought to light the founda- tions of such an apse attached to the south transept ; the northern one has not yet been explored. In fact, the whole arrangement of Leominster, with the apses attached to the transepts, and the a])sidal chapels radiating round the presbyter}^, is identical with that which Professor Willis pointed out as having been the original state of Chichester. From these instances, where something has been substi- tuted for the apse, we may proceed to another class, in which the apse has been destroyed without any substitute beinj!" added, I think whenever we meet with a blocked arch, or the signs of a gable, against the east wall of a Norman transept, Ave may fairly set it down as testifying the previous existence of such an apsidal chapel. Exam})les occur in Southwell j[inster, and in Leonard Stanley Priory, Gloicestershire, and I may add several more ii'om Sussex. iMy attention was first drawn to the subject, as regards small churches, by visiting West 11am, one of the two mediaeval churches which stand at either end of the Koman fortress at Pevensey, ;tii(l of wliiCli I ll.iiln- myself that I carried away as accuialc an accitiiiiL as 1 coiild, while myself and my sketch-book were deluged by llir torrents of lain wliicli accoinp.-iiiicd my visit. The lirst result of this j)iirsuiL of knowledge uiidei' dilliculties vas to ehserve a blocked semiciicular aitli in llie east wall ol (lie south = Scr- " I'utit'H 'I'fwktHliury," j). .'il, ' Sec " AMlmiolipgiiiil .Jminml," vol. wlii-n- tlii-rt! an- boiho goud reiiiiirliH uii " » |'- '"•'• tfiu whole bubjvct.