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present walls are of about the original height, it will at once be seen 
what an extremely fine apartment this great hall of Bishop Beau- 
champ’s palace must have been ; it was probably lighted by lofty 
windows, similar in character to the existing windows in the tower, 
but of much greater length and divided into two parts by a transome, 
and it is not unreasonable to suppose that a projecting bay window 
occurred at the western end of the north wall, beside the high table, 
such as fifteenth century architects so frequently adopted in halls of 
this description. 
The roof of the hall and the embattled parapets of the side walls 
would no doubt have been carried up to the east wall of the area in 
the centre of the palace in an unbroken line. 
It appears that the whole of this eastern wing of the palace was 
completely ruined at the time of the Great Rebellion, portions of 
the outer walls having alone escaped destruction, hence the difficulty 
of deciding what were the exact limits of the great hall as originally 
designed by Bishop Beauchamp ; and although we are indebted to 
Bishop Seth Ward for having preserved some portion of the shell 
of the building, still the great alterations which he introduced into 
its form and probable extent have very materially increased the 
difficulty of re-constructing it in imagination on its original lines ; 
but a careful consideration of the existing remains has suggested the 
foregoing explanation of the various features which exist, and to 
some extent it seems to account in a reasonable manner for the pe- 
culiarities which we find. 
Some remains of small door jambs in the east wall lead to the 
supposition that an annexe formerly existed outside this wall; per- 
haps the sewery may have stood here, for the original sewery be- 
longing to Bishop Poore’s hall would have been too far off from the 
new hall to have been convenient; various other offices may also 
have been located at this point, but presumably Bishop Poore’s 
kitchen remained in use down to the time of the Great Rebellion. 
What may be called the medieval history of the palace ends with 
the work executed by Bishop Beauchamp; after the partial des- 
truction of the building at the time of the Great Rebellion a large 
part of the central and eastern portions of the palace must have 
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