was not the Church of the Priory. 21 
and that is a matter of importance, as regards this controversy. 
Mr. Kemm says :—‘‘ The west end of the nave formerly contained 
a three-light window, with two quatrefoils in its point. Having 
become somewhat dilapidated, the end was taken down, and re-built, 
with the present window, in the Early English style, when the 
Church was restored.”’ Mr. Kemm, I may say, strongly condemned 
this so-called, restoration. He says further:—‘‘In taking down 
the old wall, the remains of a spiral staircase were found.” Now, 
from this description, it would appear that the window was 
medizval, and the spiral staircase would be more likely to occur 
at the west end than at any intermediate point. Itis an argument 
in favour of the nave never having been any longer than at 
present, though Mr. Kemm was inclined to think that it must have 
been shortened.! 
A prolongation of the north wall of the Church extends beyond 
the west end, in which are the remains of the east jamb of a 
doorway? of, I think, transition Norman character. Those, who 
think that the nave has been shortened, contend that this door led 
from the cloister into the Church, as, on that supposition, it must 
have done. When I examined it, I found that the face of the 
doorway was to the south, and that fact, though it may not be 
and pine: the beams spring from grotesque heads.” 
Mr. Butterfield is reported to have said that the chancel roof was of no 
value, but it would hardly appear, from the above, that it was of no archo- 
logical interest. Probably, it was originally of about the same date as the 
east window. 
1 Sir R. Hoare says:—‘ The original entrance was at the west end, where 
there are still remains of the pillars of a retiring portal.” This would be most 
important, if it did not apparently involve a mistake. I have no. doubt that 
Hoare mistook the east jamb, which still remains, of a Norman doorway, in 
the prolongation of the north nave wall, for the north jamb of a western 
doorway to the Church. It appears to be this statement of Hoare’s that Mr. 
Kemm was combating when he says (page 14) :—‘‘ At the north corner of 
the west end remains a cluster of shafts which evidently formed part of a 
deeply recessed doorway, and a hook, still in one of the columns, shows that 
a gate or door has hung there, most likely leading into the cloister, as it is in 
the wrong place for a door into the Church.” 
2'These remains of a doorway were, I understand, taken down and re-set 
by Mr. Butterfield, but apparently with due care. The work is not in a very 
good condition at the present time. 
