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waggon-house. This is a very beautifiilly proportioned 

 room of early Perpendicular cbaracter, 45 feet long, and 

 19 wide ; the eastern part has sufFered from the ravages of 

 time and violence, but the rest is nearly perfect ; on the 

 north side it was lighted by Uro very beautiful Windows, 

 the traces of which still remain ; they are of two lights, and 

 are divided by a transom. Two doorways give access to 

 this noble hall, one at the west end, over which is a small 

 window of two lights ; the other at the east end of the 

 north side, the very elaborate mouldings of which are stUI 

 in fine preservation. A staircase turret may be observed 

 in ruins, on the south side, but I can find no traces of any 

 fire-place. These, with the exception of a very fine 

 monastic barn, which Stands in a perfect State on the north 

 side of the Priory, are all that remain of the magnificent 

 foundation of William de Courteney. 



I cannot, however, leave the subject without mentioning 

 the discovery of a veiy curious reliquary in Kewstoke 

 Church, as it is probably connected with the dedication 

 of AVoodspring Priory to St. Thomas of Canterbury. 

 The weight of the clerestory having forced out the north 

 wall, which was of fourteenth Century work, it was re- 

 cently puUed down, and a mutilated piece of carved work, 

 built into it, on being removed, was discovered to be a 

 reliquary. In the front is carved a figure in an arched 

 niche, having shafts of Early English charaeter. This 

 figure, the face of which seems to have been purposely 

 mutUated, holds something, probably a heart, in its 

 hands, but it is so defaced that it is now quite impossible 

 to decide what it is. At the back was discovered an 

 arched recess, having within a small wooden cup, con- 

 taining what is supposed to be the residuum of human 

 blood. This reliquary is manifestly of earlier date 



