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1887, all sorts of opinions were expressed: some placing them 
earlier, some later than 1245, but the best authorities thought they 
might probably have been built about that year. 
Assuming then that they were built that year, in what shape were 
those other buildings, which there plainly were, and which are since 
demolished? Was the hospital built on the plan of most such edifices, 
“a long hall with vaulting [to quote Archdeacon Wright’s words 
again] and divided into bays by pillars”: the chapel at the east 
end, and the inmates housed in cells in the aisles? In other words 
were there ¢wo such arcades (the other since gone with the rest of 
the building), and were the cells ranged outside them on the north 
and south, the east end being closed by chapels? 
That this was so there are two arguments. 
1. The common practice of the times; as seen in the hospitals 
of Portsmouth, Chichester, and Wells. It is sufficient to refer again 
to Archdeacon Wright’s account of the Domus Dei at Portsmouth. 
St. Mary’s, Chichester, is built on the same plan, and so is Bishop 
Bubwith’s almshouse at Wells: a chapel occupying the whole of 
the east end, and the only difference being that at Chichester the 
cells are open to the central aisle, while at Wells they are closed up 
into separate rooms. But note that if this plan had been carried 
into execution at Salisbury, there must have been three separate 
chambers, or chapels; the two which at present exist, and a de- 
molished one to the north of them: or rather (for the wall of the 
present chapel which blocks up the arches certainly had no original 
existence) it was one long chapel from north to south, divided into 
three compartments by the two rows of pillars. 
2. That this actually was so is asserted, and very great detail 
given, by a MS. in my keeping, which was written in 1713, by one 
Mr. Hickman, the then chaplain, but evidently derived from much 
older authorities." And Mr. Bigge, the master at the beginning of 
distinctly says that the old barn was on the north side of the hospital: so that 
nothing that it contained can have ever been in the hospital itself. There are 
more than 200ft. between the hospital itself and the road which skirts the Close 
wall: therefore there is ample room for a large Church to the north of the 
hospital. 
1 See Appendix C. 
