PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT REPTON. 157 
between the chapel and south choir aisle, and the latter must, 
therefore, replace either a former arcade or a solid wall. The first 
bay was probably left solid ; either because it held the sedilia and 
piscina of the choir aisle, or a tomb on the chapel side. Between 
the third and fourth pillars the remains of a tomb were found, 
containing a skeleton, whose legs had been doubled up in a most 
uncomfortable way for want of room. Both the third and fourth 
bases, as well as the western respond, remain in very perfect con- 
dition, but lack their detached shafts. It will be seen from Plate 
IX. that they have a very singular plan, with a triple vaulting 
shaft attached to the north face. 
Passing to the tower, as the next work in point of date, we find 
that the bases of all its four piers are now uncovered. They ex- 
hibit the same section throughout, but differ slightly in plan. Of 
the south-west one only the hollow-chamfered plinth remains. 
No additional information can be gleaned respecting the pulpitum ; 
it is, however, not easy to say how a person turned round when 
he got to the top of the stairs leading to the loft, and there must 
have been a projecting cornice, or some such arrangement, to give 
additional width. ‘The plain face of the pu/pztum has a parallel at 
Rochester, and for the same reason, that the more gorgeous roodloft 
stood to the west, though no traces of the second screen remain at 
Repton. This is not, however, negative evidence of the existence 
of the western screen, for at Durham, where we have positive 
documentary proof there was one, no traces whatever can be 
detected on the piers. 
The exact width of the choir has been found to be 26 feet 2 
inches. Thecanons’ stalls were placed against a solid wall, 1 foot 
thick, extending eastward 31 feet 2 inches. This wall was con- 
temporary with, and part of, the pillars of the arcade, some of 
whose moldings it takes the place of. Though we have no means 
of ascertaining the height of the wall, it probably stopped short 
below the capitals of the pillars, and the moldings of the latter 
would appear complete above the coping of the wall. Nothing is 
left to show the number and arrangement of the stalls, but there 
is room for thirteen a side, and for four returned stalls on either 
