"which is too large for Norman, enlarges with the classical or Roman "entasis. The lower apophysis has been cut off to shorten the column, "the lower part of which rests on a double Attic torus, and that on a "plinth. 66 "In the New Series of the "Archeologia Cambrensis " (1851), Mr. "Freeman has written a long account and description of this arch, and "he there remarks on its inexplicable peculiarities. Only two sides of "each capital are seen (they being square, and standing in an angle), and "they look as if the large, coarse leaves had been cut away to introduce some religious subjects. On one side there seems to be a representation "of the Creation and the Trinity, the creating Father being represented "by an open hand, the impersonation of the Son by a human face, the "Holy Ghost by a dove, beneath which is an orb to represent the Spirit "of God moving on the face of the waters. On the adjoining side is "shown the fall of man, by the expulsion from Paradise by a rude figure "of a person with a sword driving away a man. On the other capital "are shown figures holding up the arms as if in torments; and on the "fourth side a figure holding a palm-branch, ascending, and conducted the Dove over the globe. 66 66 by Mr. Freeman seems to fancy the building to have been a western Lady Chapel; but I can hardly think that a Lady Chapel would have "been tacked on to a larger church, especially of such rude construction "and so become simply a passage to the larger church. There does not appear to have been any bell-tower to the Norman church; but there may have been a bell-cot at the west end of the gable of what I call "St. Woollos original church. 66 66 The "This Norman arch is now closed by a wooden door, and made the "principal entrance into the church. It leads down by two steps into one of the most perfect and beautiful Norman naves to be seen. "Church of St. Woollos was at a very early period given to the Abbey "of Gloucester, and the Norman nave was most probably built by the "abbot and monks; but it may have been built by Robert Earl of "Gloucester, natural son of Henry I., and frequently called Robert "Consul. He married Mabel, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz"Hamon, the original conqueror of the district of Wentloog; by which "marriage he became possessed of the country, and lord of Wentloog. 66 66 "It consists of an arcade of five arches with clerestory quite perfect, "and the corbels now remaining in the aisle and the clerestory windows above them show that there were originally lean-to aisles. At the east "end must have been the high altar; but that wall has been cut through to lengthen the church, in the Decorated period, as portions of "arches show. A Decorated chapel, probably a Lady chapel, which "now forms the chancel, was added; but the great east wall was not cut "through for an arch, but only an opening about 15 feet high made; "the wall above resting on a horizontal bressomer-beam, having above it "a singing-gallery approached by a turret-staircase. It was when the "church was restored, in 1852, that this wall was cut through, and a "chancel-arch formed. The chancel, as already stated, was originally "Decorated; but had a poor, debased Perpendicular window at the east |