tower allows a central
auditorium about one hundred feet in diameter, unobstructed by columns
or piers, with the nave transepts and choir opening into it. The
aisles are not decreased by this central enlargement, as they deflect
through the four abutting towers.

The different vestry-rooms, library or sacristy and the treasury are
grouped conveniently to the choir, with separate entrances for the
church officials. The meeting-room for the clergy or chapter and the
chapel have entrances independent of the church, or by lowering the
screen they can be thrown open into the cathedral. Toilet-rooms,
custodian's and a committee-room are located on the transept
vestibules, as these entrances would most probably be constantly open.

Elevators are placed in two of the supplemental towers, and stairways
in the ones adjoining the choir, landing visitors on the triforium
gallery, which encircles the building, and in the two galleries which
encircle the central lantern. From the lantern galleries visitors can
obtain fine interior views of the building, and comprehend the crucial
form of the plan at a glance.

TABULATIONS OF APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS.

Length. Breadth. Height. Square feet.
Ground-floor including
walls height to the
ridge of roof 400 156 to 230 148 69,000

Lantern or central tower
exterior 106 106 400 11,236

Nave interior 125 50 100 6,250

Transepts interior 30 50 100 3,000 for
the two

Choir interior 95 50 100 4,750

Central tower interior 88 88 200

Aisles interior 16 40

Chapel and Chapter 52 26

Square feet of auditorium exclusive of aisles, columns
and space between columns, triforium and galleries 20,486

Auditorium including everything except choir 48,106

ABBEY OF ABERBROTHWICK: GALLERY OVER ENTRANCE.

ABBEY OF ABERBROTHWICK: THE WESTERN DOORWAY.

The traveller by sea, along the east coast of Scotland, is liable to
be reminded with startling emphasis of the demolition to which the
ecclesiastical architecture of the country has been subjected. Leaving
behind him on his northward course the fragments of the metropolita