was not the Church of the Priory. 23 
was still standing, about 70 yards west of the present house. This 
carries us, I think, to a still further distance from the Church. “It 
had been converted into a stable, but the circular-headed windows 
and massive concrete wall told plainly of what it had once formed 
a part.” This was destroyed about fifty years before the date at 
which he wrote, therefore about 1826. Mr. Edwards also alludes 
to the same fragment, in another pamphlet printed on the same 
occasion, as follows :—‘ A wall, which no doubt was the last relic 
of the Abbey buildings, above ground, was that forming the south- 
west end and gable of the stable, which stood between the west 
front of the present mansion and the river and in it there were 
several round-headed windows.”’ 
Mr. Kemm says further that :—‘‘In the winter of 1859 and 
spring of 1860, in digging out for foundations at the rear of the 
mansion, extensive remains of the thick walls of the ancient 
conventual buildings were struck upon, and the nearly entire 
(though much patched and mended) floor of a room was uncovered. 
It was nearly three feet below the present level of the soil, and 
appeared to have had a stone seat or ledge all round.it, about the 
ordinary height of a chair, as if it had been a chapter-room or 
other place for the assemblage of the inmates. The measurements 
of the room were, roughly speaking, 31 feet by 23 to 24 feet; 
the width of the seat, or ledge, was 16 to 20 inches, out of a 
thickness of 34 to 4 feet, except on the west side, where the width 
of the ledge was 2 feet 9 inches, out of a considerably greater 
thickness of wall. There were places in the wall indicative of 
doorways and probably a fireplace.” All this sounds very like 
the remains of a chapter-house. The dimensions, I believe, would 
be suitable, and the wider seat, or ledge, with indications of 
apparent doorways and fireplace, on the west side, might well 
be the sills of windows and entrance arch. Of course, if it was 
the chapter-house, it settles the question, and the present Church 
could not possibly be the Priory Church, on account of the 
distance. Mr. Kemm says that “a stone coffin and slab were 
found in these excavations,” apparently in situ, at a distance 
of, at least, 850 feet from the Church. Such an interment 
