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which must originally have been a chamber or chambers of some 

 description. But the most interesting discovery has resulted 

 from taking down the house lately occupied by Mr. Hood. 

 Two sides of this house had been formed of what were evidently 

 external portions of an elegant ecclesiastical building ; the 

 removal of the house has brought to light a relic of great 

 beauty, — the eastern gable of that building, the interior of 

 which clearly shows that it was a chapel connected with the 

 room or rooms above the cloisters. " Here then," the Curator 

 of Antiquities concludes, " we have the remains of the Infirmary 

 of St. Leonard's Hospital, with its chapel open to the wards, 

 and its ambulatory capable of being warmed for the benefit of 

 the infirm and sick. This is the place of which Sir Thomas 

 Widdrington speaks, as cited by Drake,* ' where the Master of 

 St. Leonard's Hospital used to keep diseased people before they 

 were in some measure healed of their infirmities, for fear of 

 infection.' It was probably the general Infirmary of the Hos- 

 pital, and referred to in the following ancient grant : — ' William 

 the Physician, son of Martyn of York, granted to St. Leonard's 

 Hospital, for the augmentation of one chaplain to celebrate 

 divine service in the New Infirmary, &c.' 



" Interesting remains of another building, apparently much 

 larger and of earlier date, have been discovered, extending from 

 the Infirmary to the foundations of a waU belonging to the 

 Jloman Multangular Tower. They consist of three rows of 

 pillars, (those of one row being of larger dimensions, and 

 Norman), forming with the Roman Wall four aisles, at right 

 angles to those of the ambulatory of the Infirmary. It is 

 to be hoped that not many years will pass before an opportunity 

 will be afforded of tracing these remains in another direction, 

 so that the Curator of Antiquities may have more ample means 

 of forming an opinion of the character and purpose of the 

 edifice, to which these remains belonged." 



These important discoveries added greatly to the interest and 

 admiration with which the Antiquarian remains within the 

 Society's grounds were viewed by the Members of the Archseo^ 



• Hist, of York, p. 334, 337. 



