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Henry de Blois. From the east end of the presbytery 
to the steps descending to the nave, is about 184 
feet, and the breadth, including the aisles, about 
68. In this part of the church are three stone 
coffins, one of which is calculated to hold a corpse 
9 feet 6 inches in length; but this probably in- 
cluded the peaked bacinet, common in the four- 
teenth century. 
The latest portion of the church now standing 
is that which is commonly called the ante- 
chapel; it is of early English character, and 
probably not very early in the style; it appears to 
have contained a flight of steps, descending from 
the great west entrance to the nave, which was 
through an arch pointed above and having 
under it another of a segmental form, of almost, if 
not quite, decorated character, to the level of St. 
Joseph’s chapel, at the foot of which was a door- 
way on the north side. The construction of the 
buttresses is very peculiar, and the interior arcade, 
though no doubt adapted to that of St. Joseph’s 
chapel, consists oftrefoiled arches; the windows also 
are large and pointed, and on the under part of the 
arch where it joins St. Joseph’s chapel, may be 
seen a panelled ornament of a different character 
from any other part of the building. The re- 
building of the church, which had been stopped 
towards the end of the reign of King Henry 
II, was not completed till a.d. 1193, 5 Richard 
I, but whether this part of the building be of a 
