112 OX THE ARKANGEMENT OF CHAPELS EAST OF TRANSEPTS.

continiions arcade within : it was only in tlic ritual arrange- ment tliat they assumed the character of distinct cliapels. In a third variety, to be found in all ages, the altai's were placed in the transepts themselves, without any projecting apse or aisle. The altars however are, in such cases, often placed under an arch, sometimes, as in St. Cross, pretty nuich resembling that of a tomb, while in others, as at Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, it swells into what might have been the approach to a destroyed chapel, onl}' the arch does not go through the wall. This last arrangement is analogous to the false piers and arches some- times placed against the walls of chancels, as at Cogenlioe, Northampton, and Cuddesdcn, Oxfordshire. Of this last arrangement the parish church at Battle supplies an excellent instance. On the south side the original blank arcade is perfect ; on the north, a later addition has introduced a modification which renders it still more curious. From these three ways of ari-anging these altars and chapels, numerous varieties branch forth. As the use of the apse became rare in England, the apses grew into larger and more distinct chapels, with square ends. These often assume a shape not easily to be distinguished from an elongated form of the eastern aisle divided into cliapels ; while both, again, sometimes approach the character of the ordinary choir-aisles, or chapels, added not to the ends of the transept, but to the sides of the choir. I will bring forward some examples, illustrating my meaning. Even in Norman times, instead of the apse, we sometimes find a square recess entered by an arch, as may be seen in the south transept at Sonqiting. There we see every prepa- ration for an altar, within a small quadrangular recess, which one really camiot describe more graphically than as a square apse. K nmch larger ;iiid more complicated e.anq)le, of nearly the same transitional date, occurs in St. jrary's, Shrewsbury ; but it has been iiiuch disturbed l)y later additions. At C C wfjie small altar-iecesses, apj)i'(>M('h('d by ai-ches, and forming oxtcrnally slight projc^ctioiis ; at i; i:. chapels, which may be calh'fl aisles to a single bay ultlic clniir. I'lil the addition of a large chapel south of the cjidir, ami seme smaller additions to the iioilli. liaNc ;jreatl ohscmcd the oi-igin.'d I'laii ; oiilv, liappilv, as the gre;il, cli;i|)el li;is been added