558 Stanley Abbey. 



it. On neither of the slabs was any inscription, nor was anything 

 found beneath.^ 



The north transept was the same width as the south, but only 

 43 feet in length. It had two arches on the east leading into a 

 chapel, and the presbytery aisle respectively. The west wall, of 

 which a fragment of the foundation was found, projected into the 

 cloister about 4 feet beyond the line of the eastern range. A great 

 mass of foundation, about 10 feet thick, of the north wall was also 

 found, with a return footing running southward. This appeared 

 to belong to the earlier church, as the return footing was eastward 

 of the line of the later pillars. There were to the westward a 

 fragment of tile flooring and indications of a step to the chapel. 

 In a trench that was cut from this point southward a number of 

 square tiles bearing letters were found, which, as no others were 

 met with elsewhere, may indicate that they formed an inscription 

 to some monument. 



The nave was 1-30 feet long by 32 feet wide, and of eight bays. 

 The arcades were carried on square blocks of foundation, of which 

 four were found on the north side, and one on the south. A frag- 

 ment of the west wall also remained. Not a vestige was found 

 of any architectural detail that could have belonged to the main 

 structure of the nave, so that with the fragmentary nature of the 

 foundations it is not possible to say definitely if the thirteenth 

 century rebuilding extended to this part of the church. It should, 

 however, be remembered that the space between the quire stalls 

 is too narrow for them to have co-existed with a nave of the width 

 of that found, and if the usual width of double stalls be added to 

 the interspace it would make the original nave of the 

 same width as the transepts, as it is reasonable to suppose it was 

 in the first place. Between the third and fourth pillars on the 

 north was a grave, over which a number of fine painted frag- 

 ments of a fifteenth century tomb, that presumably covered it, 

 were found. 



' These slabs have been taken up and are placed in the south porch of 

 Calne church for preservation. 



