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they go on with the lower or parochial church. We may 
safely say that the east end of the upper church was finished, 
as all Norman work with apsidal terminations to the choir and 
aisles. How long this work was going on we have no 
definite date to show, but there is evidence which | think 
proves that it was completed about the early part of the 
13th century. This evidence is the Conventual Seal (plate 
I, fig. 3,) evidently late 12th or early 13th century, which 
shows a church with central tower, and a west end having 
two towers. 
I will point out something more we may learn from this 
seal. Our plan is a combination of a plan made of the 
excavations carried out by this Society upon the site of 
the Market Hall, and of Shaw’s plan (plate I, fig. 1). 
Shaw’s plan, although only a rough sketch plan, was fairly 
accurate. At the west end of the church some foundations 
were uncovered (plate II, fig. 1), which show that the west 
end finished at the line of what looks like transepts in 
Shaw’s plan. Now this makes Hollar’s sketch (plate I, 
fig. 2) fit in exactly with the plan, for he shows the west 
end finishing with a tower and turret, but if so, what is 
the part that is shewn in front? Hollar does not show it. 
Let us turn to the seal again (plate I, fig. 3). A figure 
sits on the roof of a low building. I think this gives us 
the key to the whole. At Durham, we find the Galilee in 
this place, built by Hugh Pudsey, 1153-1194; we know 
that Rievaulx, Byland, Fountains, and others had such 
erections at the west end; the seal shows it, the plan points 
to it; further, Shaw’s sketch plan will not work with 
Hollar’s drawing without, for he notes here a tower. The 
trees in Hollar’s sketch hide it. I think we may safely 
say there was a Galilee at Burton, and this might easily 
have been proved at the time of the excavations. 
Galfridus, 6th Abbot, 1114-1150, built a belfry over the 
choir, and covered it with lead; this was Norman work. 
