156 PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT REPTON. 
deep. No use can be assigned for this, unless it held a large 
armarium, or cupboard, for vestments and other ornaments; or, 
as no traces have been found of the night stairs communicating 
with the dormitory, they may have stood here within an arch. 
The east side opened by an arcade of two arches, the plinths of 
whose pillars remain, into an aisle or chapel. The arcade was 
contemporary with the tower and choir, but nothing is left of the 
aisle itself, even to help us to fix its dimensions, and they are 
shown on the plan quite conjecturally. Just to the east of the 
arcade is the foundation of a wall nearly six feet thick, running 
_north and south. From its proximity to the arcade, it must be 
anterior in date, and clearly represents the eastern wall of an older 
transept, but whether it is contemporary with the west wall, or with 
the foundation of the aisleless nave, there is nothing to show. 
The remains of the south transept are most fragmentary. Part 
of the rubble core of the west wall remains, and that of the south 
wall was found, but has since been removed. On its east side, if 
an aisle ever existed, it was afterwards replaced by a large chapel, 
47 feet 6 inches long, and about 21 feet wide. Of the arcade 
opening into this chapel and into the choir aisle, only one base 
remains (Plate XI.) This seems insufficient to carry the weight of 
the transept wall, and we should expect three arches instead of two. 
There is, however, no second base, and all possible traces of it 
have been completely removed. The moldings show this arcade 
to be somewhat later than the nave. 
The south wall of the south chapel was uncovered during the 
excavations, but had been removed before I had an opportunity 
of seeing it. In front of the third buttress was a small semi- 
octagonal base (not shown on plan), but it did not range with 
anything. From its position it must have had some constructional 
use not now evident. When I commenced excavations on the 
site in 1882, I found at the east end of this chapel a piece of solid 
wall, which ranges with the pier of the transept arcade. This has 
since been removed, and the measurements I took at the time of 
its discovery, are the only record of its existence. On referring 
to the plan, it will be seen that it is not in line with the arcade 
