Joseph Lord Print
Figure 22 shows the Cathedral as it was before the 18th Century losses. The print was dedicated to Bishop Adam Ottley of St Davids (1713 – 23). 40 It must be treated with a degree of caution, as it fails to show the buttresses and the stair turret of the Jasper tower, nevertheless it presents some interesting information.
The Consistory Court covers and protects the Norman south door. A porch protects the small south door. There are no buttresses to the nave and no door in the presbytery aisle. The roof of the chapter house preceded the low pyramid roof shown in Figure 17. An external staircase gave access to the school house over the chapter house, and also to a room above the south presbytery aisle. To accommodate this room, the presbytery aisle wall was considerably higher than the nave aisle wall. The roof appears to meet the presbytery wall above the level of the base of the clerestory, and this may explain the astonishing lack of windows. The upper range of Norman windows on the north side of the Presbytery probably survived until the building of the Italian Temple. The south west tower as shown in Figure 21 had three stages, with single windows in each stage on the west face, and a single window on the north face of the top stage. The South West tower shown in the Joseph Lord print has single windows on the east face, in the 2nd and 3rd stages, which would appear to correspond, by symmetry, with Figure 21, but the South face has twin lancets, both in the 2nd and 3rd stages. The clerestory windows in the 8th bay of the nave are wider, lower, and further apart than the others, also there is no vertical break between the nave clerestory and the presbytery wall. The absence of 13th century windows in this bay is consistent with an intention to build towers here. It is possible that these clerestory windows were contemporary with the upper room of the south presbytery aisle. All the parapets are battlemented. The nave roof is of lead.
Finally, the print gives a view of the 15th Century crown of the Jasper Tower.
The Consistory Court covers and protects the Norman south door. A porch protects the small south door. There are no buttresses to the nave and no door in the presbytery aisle. The roof of the chapter house preceded the low pyramid roof shown in Figure 17. An external staircase gave access to the school house over the chapter house, and also to a room above the south presbytery aisle. To accommodate this room, the presbytery aisle wall was considerably higher than the nave aisle wall. The roof appears to meet the presbytery wall above the level of the base of the clerestory, and this may explain the astonishing lack of windows. The upper range of Norman windows on the north side of the Presbytery probably survived until the building of the Italian Temple. The south west tower as shown in Figure 21 had three stages, with single windows in each stage on the west face, and a single window on the north face of the top stage. The South West tower shown in the Joseph Lord print has single windows on the east face, in the 2nd and 3rd stages, which would appear to correspond, by symmetry, with Figure 21, but the South face has twin lancets, both in the 2nd and 3rd stages. The clerestory windows in the 8th bay of the nave are wider, lower, and further apart than the others, also there is no vertical break between the nave clerestory and the presbytery wall. The absence of 13th century windows in this bay is consistent with an intention to build towers here. It is possible that these clerestory windows were contemporary with the upper room of the south presbytery aisle. All the parapets are battlemented. The nave roof is of lead.
Finally, the print gives a view of the 15th Century crown of the Jasper Tower.