The palette

Granite with some polished granite and a little dripstone and tuff near the ground for the red walls; polished diorite (blocks, stairs and slabs) for the white quoins, arch heads and Lombard bands, diorite walls for the colonnettes; tuff bricks and polished tuff for the low slate roofs, the base course and the cloister floor; chiseled tuff for the tympanum, smooth stone and polished andesite for the paved garth; dark oak for the doors, granite walls for the belfry's twin columns, a gold block under the spire's rod, water in the fountain.

Techniques

• Round arches from stairs
• Lombard bands
• A stepped basilica
• Square to octagon
• Paired-column arcades

The steps

1. Stone footing of the church and cloister
2. Church walls: aisles, transept, choir and apse
3. Round-arched windows of the lower walls
4. Stepped buttresses
5. West portal with its recessed arches
6. Clerestory and the upper walls
7. Lombard bands under the eaves
8. Crossing tower: the square stage
9. Crossing tower: the octagonal belfry
10. Nave and transept roofs of stone slates
11. Aisle, choir and apse roofs
12. Tower spire and its cross
13. East range: chapter house and dormitory walls
14. East range: buttresses and its roof
15. Cloister: arcades on paired columns round the garth
16. Open galleries and the gate porch
17. Cloister walk roofs
18. The garth's fountain
19. Lanterns at the doors

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