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By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 171 
perfected” the upper chamber “ under which lies immediately our 
refectory (or dining-room) in the said Palace of Sarum” after the 
Restoration (Aug. 28th, 1662), and consecrated it to sacred uses, he 
only revived a practice that had been in force for some time before 
the Great Rebellion. Indeed it is quite possible that the lower part 
of the screen may be of the reign of Charles I., and the upper part 
Henchman’s work or later. The ribs of the panelled roof are 
probably .of the same date as the walls. The panels are modern. 
The chapel, which, with the ante-chapel, is about 40ft. long and 
L8ft. wide, is, as you will remember, in a block of building ap- 
parently of the middle of the fifteenth eentury. The lower part is 
the present main entrance hall, to which is attached an unsightly 
porch, testifying by the arms above it to the “ liberal but tasteless 
innovations” of Bishop Barrington just about a century ago. This 
block or wing is attached to the north-east corner of Bishop Poore’s 
Hall, and may have taken the place of a chapel of his time, or at 
any rate of an early date, just as Bishop Burnell’s existing chapel 
at Wells took the place of that of Bishop Joceline. he fabric I 
should venture to ascribe to Bishop Beauchamp (1450—81), who 
built the great eastern hall, and I suppose the tower by which it 
was entered—of which we shall speak presently —and who was a 
great builder elsewhere. It is difficult to say exactly how much of 
Beauchamp’s work still remains. It is stated by the Rev. Peter 
Hall, in his “ Memorials of Salisbury ” (note to pl. 16, A.D. 1834), 
that not only the porch just mentioned, but the windows of this 
wing, were inserted under Bishop Barrington “ according to a 
solent Ac tam Dei Ministro in Sacris Ordinibus rite constituto Preces Divinas 
ibidem dicendi ceteraque praemissa faciendi quam populo Christiano preces 
divinas Audiendi ceteraque premissa percipiendi plenam in Domini concedimus 
potestatem. EHandemque Capellam ad usus praedictos sic consecratam fuisse 
et esse et in futuris perpetuis temporibus remanere debere palam et publice 
pronunciamus decernimus et declaramus Privilegiis insuper omnibus et singulis 
in ea parte usitatis et Capellis abantiquo fundatis rite competentibus Capellam 
hance praedictam ad omnem juris effectum munitam et stab‘litam esse volumus 
et quantum Nobis est et de jure possumus sic munimus et stabilimus In quorum 
omnium testimonium Sigillum nostrum Episcopale praesentibus hisce Literis 
apponi fecimus Lecta et Lata fuit haec sententia vicesimo octavo die Mensis 
Augusti Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Sexagesimo, Secundo et Nostrae 
Consecrationis Secundo.” 
