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similar to those of the staircase just described, but the central 
staircase is of less fine proportions, simply working round a square, 
and its design was considerably hampered by the conditions which 
had to be met. The appearance of the brickwork forming the- 
external walls round this central staircase seems to prove that this: 
block of building was entirely erected by Bishop Seth Ward. 
In carrying out the restoration of the eastern wing of the palace; 
Bishop Ward seems purposely to have designed all the features: 
introduced by him in such a manner as to-make them harmonise- 
with the surrounding earlier work. Thus he adopted mullioned 
windows of an Elizabethan character, and embattled parapets very 
much like those which crown the walls of. the tower and chapel ; 
but in the south front he used a type of architecture more prevalent 
in his own day, and similar to what we now know as the Queen 
Anne style. 
To return once more to Bishop Beauchamp’s hall, it is necessary 
to mention that the windows as they now exist were arranged by 
Bishop Barrington—at all events, the lowest tier was inserted by 
him. It may have been that Bishop Ward’s hall was lighted by a 
row of windows high up in the walls, in which case the windows 
which now light the first-floor rooms may be in their original 
position, but it is more probable that when Bishop Barrington con- 
structed these first-floor rooms he took out Bishop Ward’s windows 
and raised them so as to suit the level of his new apartments, before 
inserting the lowest tier which give light to the hall as curtailed by 
him. 
The windows on Bishop Ward’s stairease in the south wall of 
Bishop Beauchamp’s hall are similar to those already described, as 
are also those in the east wall, some of which were inserted by 
Bishop Barrington. 
About seventy years after Bishop Ward’s work was executed, that 
is to say, about the year 1740, an addition to the palace was made 
by Bishop Sherlock in the erection of a library at the south-west. 
corner of Bishop Poore’s camera. As far as we can see at present, 
no alterations had been made at this end from the time of Bishop 
Poore, all intermediate bishops having confined their alterations and 
