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elegant niches, then seven long tall lancets fill the whole
length of the front, having the alternate ones only pierced
for lights; in the gable is a niche containing a statute of
the Virgin and Child, and on each side, shields charged with
the armorial cognizances of the Abbey and the Dacres, and
the top is crowned by the fragments of a beauteous cross.
The nave is fitted up as the parish church, and is lighted
by a row of eight clerestory windows; these have the toothed
ornament, the only kind used, which, with the cornice that
runs round the whole building, give a rich appearance to the
general plan of the exterior. The low Norman tower rising
about a square in height above the roof, is supported by
massive angular piers. The transepts and choir are unroofed,
and suffered to go to decay. The opposite sides of the choir
are different in their architecture, and the transepts
respectively partake of it. Tall circular piers, with only
the clerestory windows above, is the disposition of the
south side; whilst the north has low massive circular piers,
and a triforium as well as clerestory. The east end is
lighted by two tiers of lancet windows, three in each; this
and the south side are now profusely covered with ivy and
mountain ashes; wall-flowers wave over the other parts, and
diffuse their fragrance in the air. There are several
monuments in this part of the church belonging to the
Dacres, to whom the Abbey lands fell at the dissolution, and
to the Howards, their successors. Two of the monuments
belonging to the Dacres are under ogee
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