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Post by Cearnach » Wed May 27, 2020 10:21 pm

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The quire consists of a series of stalls arranged along the midsection of the nave just before the transept and coronation area. It is separated from the remainder of the nave by a screen, which the image above shows. If the viewer of that image were to turn around, they would see the transept spreading to his right and left and the main apse directly in front of him.

This is where the monks of the abbey sit to sing their plainsong according to the canonical hours and at mass. In keeping with the architectural idiom of the abbey, the quire is richly decorated.
Gm * Man of Angles * Sionnach * Scealai *

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England
--Eliot, Little Gidding

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