10400/12539
[ stop the slideshow ]

Exterior View of St. Robert’s Chapel, Knaresborough

Exterior View of St. Robert’s Chapel, Knaresborough.jpg Female MinstrelThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389Female MinstrelThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389Female MinstrelThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389Female MinstrelThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389Female MinstrelThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389

St. Robert’s Chapel, at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, is a very excellent example of a hermitage. It is hewn out of the rock, at the bottom of a cliff, in the corner of a sequestered dell. The exterior, a view of which is given below, presents us with a simply arched doorway at the bottom of the rough cliff, with an arched window on the left, and a little square opening between, which looks like the little square window of a recluse. Internally we find the cell sculptured into the fashion of a little chapel, with a groined ceiling, the groining shafts and ribs well enough designed, but rather rudely executed.