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to trace its position. In the jamb of the gate leading to the 
farın yard may be seen a square recess of ashler work ; this, 
though much mutilated, is undoubtedly a piscina, with a 
quatrefoiled water-drain. It is evidently in situ, and was 
of course placed at the side of the altar. Against the wall of 
the present granary, where tradition says the tower stood, 
there may be seen the remains of a strong pier, and op- 
posite to it are the foundations of one answering to it; above 
in the wall is a door entering into what was the turret stair, 
and at the other corner, a larger door which seems to have 
entered into the dormitory and probably led into the 
gallery intended for the accommodation of the sick monks. 
The spring of an arch is distinetly visible at the tower pier, 
and it seems probable that the choir extended from a little 
to the east of the gate just mentioned, to the western wall 
of the tower, occupying the breadth of the present road, 
and the area of the tower itself, which, though, small might 
have been large enough for the accommodation of the monks 
themselves. So far the plan is easily made out, but just 
to the west of the solid wall of the tower are the remains 
of what must have been the entrance to the chapel. That 
the gate opened outwards from the quadrangle is evident 
from the fastenings which remain, and there is still to be 
seen the spriug of a higher arch on the north side of the 
wall, an almost universal arrangement in church-doors, in 
which the inner arch is almost invariably higher than the 
outer. Now this door, I think, must have led into an 
ante-chapel, through which there was probably a passage 
to the burying-ground, which lay on the north side of the 
chapel, and it seems probable that there was a north aisle, 
and though I have not been able to trace its foundations, 
there have certainly been buildings of some kind on the 
north side; nor can I find any marks of the cross wall, 
