96 The Ancient Sub-Chantry House, 
plans of the late Mr. T. H. Wyatt for the adaptation and enlarge- 
ment of the buildings to the requirements of the college were carried 
out by the late Mr. F. R. Fisher. This involved the removal of 
the old Sub-Chantry House to make room for a new building upon 
its site; it was accordingly pulled down with the exception of the 
north wall, which was left to form part of the boundary wall next 
the Deanery garden. 
Before it was taken down there was little in the exterior of the 
building except the nail-studded door and pointed arch of the 
entrance to mark its early origin; many alterations and additions, 
some of them of the sixteenth century, having been made to it; 
while the interior had been divided into three storeys and many 
rooms, so that no part of the original building was visible, but as 
the work of demolition advanced and the paper and canvas, lath 
and plaster, floors and partitions of later times were removed, the 
skeleton of a fourteenth century structure of great interest, and of 
some importance was laid bare. The principal part of the building 
consisted of a hall running north and south, 38ft. long by 143ft 
wide internally, having massive walls of flint with dressings of 
Chilmark stone, and open to the roof, which was of oak and divided 
into bays by principals and curved braces forming a series of lofty 
pointed arches; the purlins were moulded and wind-braced, some 
of the braces being simply curved and the rest foliated. The 
splayed openings of the original windows still existed in the east 
wall, but the stone mullions and tracery had been swept away to 
make room for sash frames. ‘There was an ample fireplace on the 
west side of the hall, and two doorways immediately opposite in the 
east and west walls, the former still retaining its pointed arch. 
Some remains of a massive oak screen or partition were found in 
the hall, which might have divided it into two apartments, but the 
original building had been so much altered that it was impossible 
to verify this conjecture. 
The decoration on the walls could be distinctly traced upon three 
sides of the hall. The designs on the north and west walls appeared 
to be heraldic in character. The ground of the north wall was 
white and diapered with squares coloured gules and each charged 
