admiration

S done by the monks themselves, who thought, as Professor
Willis suggests, that they could do it
better than common workmen. Their work is made of a light and porous
kind of stone, treated with plaster on the under-side, and it was
rendered necessary by the previous roof, which was of wood, having been
destroyed by fire in 1190. Of this
fire the piers certainly show the traces to this day, all having become
reddened and slightly calcined. To make the new clerestory the whole of
the original Norman
work over the arcade of the triforium was removed, with the exception of
the jambs of the side-lights (which extended
beyond the arches of the triforium) and the wall between them. Mr.
Gambier Parry
has also truly said that this work "was not an artistic
success. They cut and maimed the features of the fine old Norman
clerestory, and pl