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open. But at Sherborne the pier itself seems to have been 

 preserved and adapted to perpendicular work. At Gloucester, in 

 the choir, the Norman work has been cased in the perpendicular. 

 The schoolroom was part of the ancient Cellarer's Hall, where 

 guests were entertained ; it is commonly called the Refectory of 

 the Monastery, but this seems doubtful, as there are no remains of 

 a reader's pulpit as at Beaulieu, Chester, and Shrewsbury. The 

 school chapel is a recent erection, too long for the width, but 

 neatly fitted up. The ancient barn of the monastery remains, and 

 has been converted into a dwelling-house; a hospital has been 

 erected in very good taste and with much liberality, and corres- 

 ponding in style to the buildings around. 

 Shkrborne Castle. 

 The following account of the Castle was given by Mr. Scarth. 

 " Robert Niger, Bishop of Sarum (1102), minister and favourite of 

 Heiuy I., held the earldom of Salisbury. He fortified Sarum, and 

 built thi-ee castles — Sherborne, Devizes, Malmesbuiy. A.D. 1113 

 King Stephen seized these three castles ; Sherborne was recaptured 

 by Empress Maud, and held for the next 200 years by the Crown, 

 but recovered to the See of Sarum by Bishop Robert Wyvil, 1356. 

 Bishop Wyvil's brass in Salisbury Cathedral records this. In the 

 brass the castle, is represented with its towers ; the keep has four 

 turrets, like all the old Norman keeps, two ornamented with a 

 mitre, two with an earl's coronet. At the window of the gate 

 stands the bishop in his robes, with crozier and mitre ; his hands 

 are lifted, either in the act of blessing his champion who stands 

 below and is going forth to fight for his rights ; or else the bishop 

 is in the act of returning thanks for the recovery of the castle, and 

 his champion is ready to defend it ; or he is reconsecrating it to the 

 use of the see. The weeds and brambles, with rabbits feeding, may 

 represent the long defilement it had undergone, or else may indicate 

 the manor of Bere Wood, which this bishop also recovered. The 

 castle and manor continued in this see till the fourth year of 

 Edward VI., when the bishop, John Capon, made the castle over 

 to the Lord Protector Somerset,— on his attainder the Crown 

 demised them to Sir John Paulet, knight, for 99 years ; but by a 

 deci'ee in Chancery the castle once more reverted to the See of 



