PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT REPTON. 159 
clearly show it was built up with a straight joint against an older 
wall, which, moreover, had a plinth along it. The cast of this 
plinth runs through the aisle wall, and seems to show that, though 
the western part of this portion of the church had been rebuilt in 
later times, the east arm was originally aisleless. Owing to the 
earlier and later works not being in line, the junction must have 
been somewhat awkward. 
The east end of the presbytery has been entirely removed since 
the excavations, and the ground lowered, but nothing was found 
to indicate the site of the high altar. Exactly at the point of inter- 
section of two lines drawn through the east walls of the aisles and 
down the centre of the choir, is a block of stone, about two feet 
cube, roughly shaped, with a socket on the top, 7 inches deep and 
7% inches square. What it was for does not appear, and it must 
have been either below the pavement or flush with it. Possibly it 
was a socket for some object, or it may have been for a_heart- 
burial. The high altar, according to the inventory, had four little 
candlesticks of latten, aud a reredos containing five great images, 
and a table of alabaster with little images. 
The north choir aisle has been so entirely demolished, that only 
its east and part of the north walls are left. It seems to have 
been of greater width than the south aisle; perhaps 12 feet 6 
inches. No detail remains to help us to fix its date. The 
junction of choir aisle and transept aisle is shown conjecturally on 
plan. 
In spite of the fulness of the 1538 inventory, it is not easy to 
point out which parts of the church are indicated. The visitors 
seem to have made their list in the following order—presbytery, 
choir, south choir aisle, south chapel, south transept, nave, north 
transept, and north choir aisle; thence to the cloister and sur- 
rounding buildings. 
By this theory the south choir aisle was St. John’s chapel. 
There are the holes for a ‘ partition of wode” in the arch at the 
west end. The south chapel, there is every reason to assume, was 
the chapel of our Lady. Its altar had an alabaster reredos, and a 
(painted) wooden frontal. The grate of iron belonged to a tomb, 
