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By C. H. Talbot, Esq. 353 
century. The upper story, or chapel, retains a square-headed Flow- 
ing Decorated window, on the south side. The arch of the east 
window appears of be also of the original Decorated work, but, at 
a later date, Perpendicular tracery has been inserted. There is a 
piscina remaining, of the original work, and two original arched 
doorways, one’ in the middle of the north side, now walled up, which 
must have been approached by an external staircase, of which no 
trace remains, and the other, near the west end of the south side, 
which is still in use, and is approached by a later staircase from the 
dwelling house. On the north side, to the west of the door above- 
mentioned, there is also a Perpendicular window, and the present 
roof of the chapel is Perpendicular. It is, in short, a fourteenth 
century building restored in the fifteenth century. At its west end 
is an elaborate fireplace, probably of the time of James I., but a 
good deal mutilated. 
The room below the chapel has another fine fireplace, in the same 
position, and a moulded plaster ceiling, both of the same date. 
Now, externally, it may be seen that the chimnies are far older 
than these fireplaces, being cylindrical, with moulded caps which 
cannot be later than the fourteenth century. It follows, therefore, 
that both the room below and the chapel? must have had fireplaces 
from the first, and the insertion of the Jacobean fireplace in the 
chapel does not of necessity imply that at that date it was turned to 
secular uses, particularly as no other alteration seems to have been 
made in it. 
The hall is parallel to the chapel, to the south of it, and has 
square-headed windows of two lights, and a porch with a room over, 
all Perpendicular. A hip-knob, of carved foliage, on its east gable, 
however, appears to be Decorated, perhaps preserved from an earlier 
hall. The roof is, in one part, well exposed to view, and is of very 
1 This, being the most easterly of the two doors, may perhaps have been the ° 
priest’s door, the other being for the lord. Possibly, also, the room under the 
chapel may have been for the priest. 
_ 2Three instances of fireplaces in the upper chambers of chapels, that were 
divided by a floor into two stories in their west part, are given in Parker’s 
“Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages,” vul. iii., p. 178, viz., at Berkeley 
Castle; Chibburn, Northumberland ; and Trecarrel House, Cornwall. 
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