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choir, which, as in all conventual buildlngs, was long, no 

 doubt extended much to the east of the tower, and took 

 away from the apparent heiglit of the church. It is now 

 totally destroyed, thoiigh the chancel arch remains. 1 wish 

 to call your attention to the fact that the lower part of the 

 south-west buttress of the tower is composed of part of 

 the jamb of a window, similar to that in the tower, which 

 would lead us to suppose that it had been built up after the 

 destruction of the chancel, perhaps to supply the support 

 the tower was deprived of by the demolition of the chancel 

 walls. There is also on the north side of the tower, 

 at the height of the roof of the aisle, a mass of masonry, 

 for which I am totally at a loss to account. The remains 

 of the cloisters, which are of the 14th Century, occupy the 

 Space on the south of the nave and tower, the west wall of 

 the enclosure standing flush with the west front of the 

 church ; the entrance from them to the church, is, as I 

 have before mentioned, the door of the modern farmhouse, 

 above which the pitch of the cloister roof is distinctly 

 marked upou the wall. AU vestiges of the interior of 

 these cloisters have vanished, with the exception of what 

 appears to be the remains of a corbel table, and the entrance 

 to a small turret at the south-west corner. Opposite to tliis 

 there was a passage to the refectory, and in the east wall 

 of the enclosure are two arches, now built up, and the 

 mutllated remains of a doorway, the arch of which is of 

 Decorated character, and must, with its elaborate cusps, 

 have been exceedingly beautiful. The domestic buildings 

 of the Priory, including the Prior's lodging, occupied the 

 greater part of the orchard on the east of the church, as 

 is evident from the marks of foundations, cxtending nearly 

 over its whole extent. All these, however, are gone, with 

 the exception of the refectory, which is now uscd as a 

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