go REPTON PRIORY, 
the possessions of the Priory during the reigns of the Edwards 
appears to have enabled the canons to rebuild their church out of 
the ground with aisles to the nave as well as the choir. What the 
plan of the eastern arm was is not yet quite certain. It seems to 
have had either double aisles, or a single one on each side, with a 
large southern chapel. The choir proper was twenty-six feet wide, 
and the stalls were returned against the pu/pztum, or choir screen, 
which stood under the eastern arch of the central tower. A notch 
cut in the base of the tower pier shows that a wooden screen was 
carried along between the piers behind the stalls, and separated 
the choir from its aisles. The aisle immediately to the south was 
10 feet wide, and the arch opening into it from the transept 
had a wooden screen, as may be seen from the holes cut for its 
reception. The pier which divided this aisle from the chapel to 
the south, and whose beautiful base I uncovered in the summer of 
1883, has been strengthened at some period very shortly after its 
own erection, by adding a respond on its eastern face. This was 
apparently done when the chapels which lay to the east of 
the transept were extended eastward to form aisles. The 
arch to the south of this base has also been filled by a wooden 
screen, and in front of this, as may be seen from the traces left by 
the masonry against the pier, stood an altar. The south transept 
was about 20 feet wide, but its area has only been partially 
cleared, and its length and arrangements are not yet ascertained. 
The central tower measured about 25 feet from north to south, by 
213 feet from east to west, and its walls were 5 feet 2 inches in 
thickness. It is of later date than the nave and _ transepts. 
Between the eastern pair of piers stood the pu/pitum, a solid stone 
screen 5 feet 43 inches deep; it had acentral door 4 feet 43 inches 
wide, with molded jambs, flanked on either side by a buttress. 
The face of the screen was perfectly plain, and when I uncovered 
it in 1883 showed no traces of colour, though the moldings of the 
door were brightly painted with red and black. In the north half 
of the screen was a straight stair 3 feet 24 inches wide, leading to 
the loft above, on which stood ‘‘.j.ould payr of Organs.” The 
step from the nave still remains in front of the ‘‘ quere dore,” but 
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