Most of these architectural glories were invisible; but the very gloom in which they were shrouded was imposing.

As the dim light fell upon pillar after pillar as they passed, revealing their mouldings, piercing a few feet into the side aisles, and falling upon the grotesque heads, the embattled ornaments and grotesque tracery of the arches, the effect was inexpressibly striking.
Nor were the personages inappropriate to the sombre scene.

The reverend figure of Dee, with his loose flowing robe and long white beard; the priestly garb and grave aspect of Garnet; the soldier-like bearing of Catesby, his armed heel and rapier-point clanking upon the pavement; the drooping figure of Viviana, whose features were buried in her kerchief, and whose sobs were distinctly audible; the strangely-fashioned coffin, and the attendants by whom it was borne;--all constituted a singular, and, at the same time, deeply-interesting picture.
Approaching the magnificent screen terminating the nave, they passed through an arched gateway within it, and entered the choir.

The west-end of this part of the church was assigned as the burial-place of the ancient and honourable family, the head of which was about to be deposited within it, and was designated from the circumstance, the "Radcliffe chancel." A long slab of grey marble, in which a brass plate, displaying the armorial bearings of the Radcliffes, was inserted, had been removed, and the earth thrown out of the cavity beneath it.
Kelley, who had assisted in making the excavation, was standing beside it, leaning on a spade, with a lantern at his feet.

He drew aside as the funeral train approached, and the shell was deposited at the edge of the grave.
Picturesque and striking as was the scene in the nave, it fell far short of that now exhibited.