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Evesham

CHAPTER V
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The east window and the chapel now used as the baptistery are both fine examples of perpendicular architecture and worthy of careful study.

The carved detail round the east window with its playful treatment of flying buttresses, battlements, and pinnacles is charming in its delicacy and proportion; and some of the detail is almost as sharp as when it left the mason's hand four hundred years ago.

The chapel is, in its way, perfect, a complete vault of fan tracery.

The decayed condition of the broken canopies, once flanking an altar, and which were the work of the same hands as the east window, shows into what a dilapidated condition the church had fallen.
There was a corresponding chapel on the north side of the nave, but this has been long demolished.

The present font is an unsympathetic copy of the old one, dating from the fifteenth century and still preserved at Abbey Manor.


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