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The main walls generally were about 3 feet 3 inches thick, and the plaster 

 remained on some of them. Deep drains were under the floors ; these drains 

 were half full of black soil. 



The worked stone I placed on the top of the retaining wall in the cattle 

 market, where I presume they are to be inspected. 



Mr. Evans, architect, of Ludlow, from the remains found, restored the 

 buildinpf, and I have no doubt he will lend the drawings for the inspection of the 

 Woolhope Club. It was in the deep cuttings for the drainage pipes that the 

 foundations were first discovered. The inhabitants of Ludlow had no tradition 

 that there ever existed a monastery in that particular field. 



The late Mr. Wright, in his history of Ludlow, referring to the 

 " Monasticon," says:— "At Ludlow there was a house of Augustine friars 

 without Goalford Gate, founded a short time before the year 1243, where it is 

 first mentioned; in the 9th Edward II. (a.d. 1326) Robert Dobyn gave them 

 two acres of land to enlarge their dwelling. " 



The late B. Botfield, Esq., having visited the site, headed a subscription for 

 tracing out the foundations by means of excavations, which has enabled me to 

 make a correct ground plan of the whole of the buildings, which covered about 

 two acres. 



The general plan was a block of buildings surrounding a quadrangle, the 

 principal hall facing the south. The buildings on the east side project beyond 

 the line of the hall, forming a wing, and terminating with deep angular buttresses ; 

 in this wing were found the oven, kitchen, cellarage with wine bottles, and a large 

 group of rooms. 



On the west side of the quadrangle, coloured yellow on the plan, were 

 various long narrow rooms ; there is a projecting wing on this side to correspond 

 with the east side. 



All the door jambs, plinth, and hoolc stones in this part were in situ, as well 

 as fireplaces and a few window sills. The chapel forms the north side of the 

 quadrangle, which must have been a very elegant building. On the south side of 

 the building are the remains of two fish ponds, coloured blue on plan, and which 

 were fed by a stream from a spring near the railway, which spring supplies the 

 cattle troughs in the market with water. 



The columns of the nave on the west side form on plan three segments of 

 a circle to correspond with three sides of an octagon on the east side of the same. 



The tower and steeple were on the east end of the chancel, for there the 

 walls were six feet thick, and the muUions at that particular place have no grooves 

 for glass, thus showing that the windows in the tower would be only louvered. 



On the east side of the north transept two human skeletons were found ; 

 the handles being the only part of the coffins remaining. 



I got also in the cutting a font, quern, keys, hinges, an abbot's ring, coins, 

 counters, &c. 



