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1st. — Between the east end of the present church and the city 

 wall there is not room enough for transepts, choir, apse, procession- 

 path and chapels, unless we suppose the east end came quite close 

 to the city wall, which is unlikely to have been the case in the 

 11th century, whatever may have been done in more settled 

 times, especially as there was plenty of ground on which to build 

 westwards towards Stall Street. 



2nd. — The two turrets that flank the present east window are 

 Norman, as we can see by the way they push out of their proper 

 position the arches over the east windows of the aisles. We 

 see the same derangement at the same place in the choir aisles 

 at Durham (c. 1074), though the turrets have disappeared. 

 Turrets in this position, i.e., at the chord of the apse, are not 

 uncommon in Norman work, as we can see at Peterborough and 

 Gloucester ; but they are unheard of in the angles between the 

 nave and transepts, as would have been their position according 

 to the popular theory. 



3rd. — The position of the doorway, east of the vestry, can only 

 be accounted for on the supposition that it is that of the ancient 

 Sacristy — a suitable and customary place for it if the high altar 

 stood at, or near, its present site ; but incongruous and incon- 

 venient in the extreme if it stood some hundred feet further east, 

 as it must have done if we accept the popular theory, 



4th. — In the bays, east of this doorway, we find on the exterior 

 the ijlinth is raised some 18 inches. This probably marks the 

 rise of tlie Sacrarium floor. If this aisle here was merely that 

 of the nave, there would be no need for such a change of level, 

 especially as of old the ground sunk east of the present transept. 



5th. — The fact that the Norman turrets and adjoining arches 

 (above referred to) were preserved, and worked into the new build- 

 ing, seems to point to the inference that when the new work was 

 taken in hand, the Norman apse was still standing, and was not 

 removed till the new choir was complete. Then the arch across 

 the chord of the apse, Avhich sprang at the level of the second set- 



