160 St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury. 
besides one large porch between them, whieh poreh belonged to the cloister (or 
church). The porch on the south side does yet remain, only a room is made over 
it by the tenant of the old kitchen: and passing through these two porches you 
come into two halls of about 25 or 30 foot long each from north to south, and 
about 16 foot broad; out of which halls you entered into the passage that lead [s] 
between the poor people’s doors and the pillars of the said church (or cloister), on 
each side just alike, both porch, hall, and passage. That hall on the south side 
is yet in being, only a large staircase made in it to ascend into the master’s 
lodgings, which was done about an 100 years since, till which time it was still 
called the old hall, and had a long old table board standing in it. Then on the 
north side of the hospital, between the said hospital and the churchyard or litton, 
was a tenement given by Bishop Robert in his ordination, which has been 
since rebuilt in form of a church (or hospital) building; at the east end of which 
was a door through a wall out of the aforesaid additional buildings of the cross 
aisle into the churchyard. But since the poor people’s rooms are gone on the 
north side of the church (or cloister) and the chaplain’s lodgings which was over 
them, there are two rooms built at the east end of the said tenement (of late 
called the farm-house, because the farmer that rented the hospital lands generally 
lived there) for two poor people and a chamber and garret for the chaplain over 
them ; which rooms and a chamber was builded about 1498, on the north side of 
which lies the ground (now an orchard) formerly called the litton or churchyard. 
Then on the south side of the north porch of entrance (at the west end of the 
hospital) is the tenement called the old kitchen, because formerly when the master 
and chaplains all ate together in the dining room of the hospital, all their meat 
was dressed there, and a door was made on the south side of the said dining 
room, about 8 foot from the west end, into the said kitchen for bringing the 
meat, which door is now (since the staircase was built and a chamber and study 
taken out of the west end of the said dining room) walled up. I have already 
given an account that the poor people’s rooms were six on the north and six on 
the south side of the church (or cloister). And over those on the south side was 
(and still is) the master’s or keeper’s lodgings, and the great common dining 
room, in length from west to east in the inside 36 foot and in breadth 21: the 
breadth is still the same, but there having been a chamber (with a study over it) 
and large staircase made and taken out of the west end thereof by Mr. Bigge 
about an 100 years past, the length of it now is but just the same as the breadth, 
viz., 21 foot. Then farther to the east there were two or three lodging rooms 
which also yet remain, and a kitchen is built over good part of the south cross 
aisle, and a thick wall for a foundation for the said kitchen chimney, and a room 
to look into the new chapel. Then over the more southerly part of the said 
cross aisle is built a washhouse, &c., and farther over the additional buildings is 
a woodhouse and house of office, over the stream of water that runs under those 
of the poor people. In the more southerly part of the cross aisle there is also a 
staircase to come up into the master’s lodgings, called the back stairs. But note 
that the master’s and chaplain’s lodgings being builded over the poor people’ss 
was at least 8 foot broader than the said poor people’s rooms, for they went clear 
over the aforesaid passage that is between the poor people’s doors and the pillars, 
which is at least 8 foot, and joined to the said pillars or arches of the said church 
(or cloister). : 
