74 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh. 



field on a level with the top of the manor house, called Conduit 

 Piece (No. 125 in the Tythe Map) is the stone building called by 

 Canon Jackson " the Monks' Conduit/^ " From its general ap- 

 pearance, and the great steepness of the roof," Mr. Talbot's im- 

 pression of this is, " that it is a fourteenth century building, with 

 the roof re-constructed." ^ 



This covered, no doubt, as Canon Jackson says, " the spring which 

 supplied the convent" of former days, and this still covers the spring 

 which supplies the manor house. 



North and east of the manor house I have lately uncovered some 

 foundations and pavements, of which I give a brief account for the 

 purpose of record — Drawing F. 



There is first of all a pavement, made partly of encaustic and 

 partly of freestone tiles, which runs east and west This is bounded 

 on the west and south, and partly perhaps on the north by walls and 

 on the east is discontinued, having been apparently there broken up. 

 This pavement is 7 feet broad, and up to the point at which it now 

 ends is 45 feet long. 



Towards the east end and on the north side of this pavement is 

 a space as if for a doorway, and therein is a similar pavement of 

 the same width and 25 feet long. Foundation walls close in this 

 pavement on all sides save at a very narrow space at the south-east 

 corner. 



At this corner there was apparently an entrance which led into a 

 chamber 25 feet long and 21-8 feet broad. In this chamber there 

 were no signs of pavement within the space marked a to ^ on the 

 plan, but north and south of it were foundation stones of a semi- 

 circular form, attached to stone platforms; and at the south-west 

 corner, about 2 feet above the foundation walls, were sills of blue 

 stone returned in the angle. One of the semicircular stones had 

 holes drilled into or through it, as if there had been some fixture on it. 



From out the excavations generally were dug the frames of a door 

 and window ; some stained or painted glass ; many loose tiles, of 

 various patterns ; interior mouldings of the twelfth to the fifteenth 



* A witness to a Kingston House document of date 1274 signs himself 

 " William deputeo de Farlege " — William of the Well. 



