Bi/ Harold lirahpcar, A.li.I.B.A. -^i^ 



formed of thi-ee canopied niches. The centre one has a curious 

 projecting semi-circular back, behind which and within the buttress 

 that runs up the centre of the gable outside is a large circular 

 flue, up which a lantern was hoisted on dark nights to guide 

 wayfarers, which must have been visible at a great distance. In 

 either side wall is a small two-light window with ogee-head, of the 

 original work. Two stone arches springing from semi-octagonal 

 corbels in the side walls originally earned a stone slab roof, which 

 was removed, as well as the upper part of the arches, when the 

 building was raised ; but the lowest and projecting course of slabs 

 still shows on the outside of the chapel and priest's chamber as well, 

 so that probably the whole of the original roofs were constructed in 

 this way. Two narrow two-light windows were inserted on either 

 side just against the east end during the later fifteenth century 

 alterations ; that to the south is blocked up, and the head with a 

 flat moulding cut on is all that is visible. 



The hospice portion, except the west wall, contains nothing of 

 the original work, as both side walls were re-built to widen this part 

 — as is evident at the north-west comer, where the original plinth 

 stops and returns into the wall at about 2ft. from the present angle. 

 The west doorway is four-centred within a square head, between 

 which are weU-carved spandrils with a shield in each. Above the 

 door, but much out of centre, is a boldly -projecting niche with 

 canopied head and the sides pierced with cusped headed openings. 

 It is supposed to have been intended to hold a lamp ; if so it is a 

 curious and early example of the familiar light over the door of a 

 modem hotel. The gable above is finished by a simple stone bell- 

 cot of the later fifteenth century work. In the south wall, on the 

 inside, are two arches, the western one was the entrance to the 

 staircase turret — now destroyed — which gave access to the upper 

 floor through the now blocked-up ogee-headed doorway above. 

 The eastern arch seems to have been merely a recessed seat. In 

 the same wall fm-ther east is another doorway, on the west side of 

 which is a two-light ^vindow with foiu:-centred arched heads with 

 no cusps to the lights. 



During the late conversion of the hospital into a serviceable 



