Nave.

Only the east end was excavated;  the west end, according to Buck, had *a door into the cloister (WARD).  Hope found *2 processional doors 1879.

There was .a north aisle, separated from the nave by 3 obtusely pointed arches supported on clustered pillars of a bold and effective design:
*2 pillar bases are exposed;  Early English (also HOPE):  4 semi – engaged shafts of their pillars had intervening bands of dogtooth.  The pillars are 30' apart.  The nave probably had three bays.  
(Hope found *3 arcade bases (H80).)

The Buck and Stukeley sketches show the clerestory and 3 windows each side.  There are fragments of early Perpendicular tracery from these (square-headed with 3 lights each).  The windows of the clerestory and the roof were built under Abbot John Spondon c. 1440.

Near (WARD;  on the north side of) the west pillar base is a 13th century coffin lid with its foot to the west.. It had a very fine incised cross on steps, with an unusually short pastoral staff on the dexter side.  It was probably of Walter de Toteneye (should be Senteney), 1st Dale Abbey Abbot who died in 1226 (H79).  
A slab had lain in the middle of the tile pavement, but it had gone and the vault had been rifled.  One side of the grave was made of a large piece of windowsill with a bold roll moulding:  the west end was filled with lots of large green tiles with knights tilting.

Many tiles were found in situ and were laid in bands for aid in the drawing up of processions.  This is unique to Dale Abbey (according to H80;  this is denied by other writers).  

The north aisle of the nave was an afterthought (CLAPHAM).

The lower parts of the walls date from the 13th century (WARD).