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of the original work belonging to Bishop Poore’s “ aula,” and it is 
probable that the present parlour on the western side of the drawing- 
room also belongs to the same date; as stated in the foregoing 
lecture, it was probably the ‘‘ Camera,” or bishop’s private apartment 
and bedroom. 
It is certainly probable, as Bishop Wordsworth says, that the 
original kitchen was situated on the south side of the area which 
occurs in the centre of the palace, that is to say, where the dairy 
and still-room now stand. When Bishop Seth Ward restored the 
palace he placed the kitchen at this point, and it is probable he did 
so because the ancient kitchen had occupied the same position. 
Finally, if a chapel existed in Bishop Poore’s palace it most prob- 
ably occupied the site of the existing chapel, but it is likely to have 
beea on a lower level. 
The only evidence we have of the execution of any building work 
during the fourteenth century consists in a fragment of a window 
found at the foot of the west wall of the drawing-room ; this win 
dow was probably inserted, either as an addition or as a restoration, 
about 1330—40; it is interesting to note also that a fragment of 
one of the thirteenth century windows belonging to the “ aula” has 
likewise been dug up, which, together with the base of the angle 
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buttresses at the north-west corner of this block, which have lately 
been laid bare, gives a very definite clue to the original design of 
Bishop Poore’s great hall. This thirteenth century window had 
trefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil above, the whole being rebated 
outside for iron casements, while the lights were also rebated inside 
for wooden shutters. 
The present entrance hall and the chapel above belong to the 15th 
century, and are generally supposed to have formed part of the work 
carried out by Bishop Beauchamp between 1450 and 1482, but the 
character of the work is so very different from that which we find 
in the tower at the eastern end of the north front, which was uns 
doubtedly erected by this great architect, that there seems some 
room to doubt whether the chapel and hall really were built or re- 
modelled by him; but if they were not they must have been erected 
very shortly before his time, since the style of architecture precludes 
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