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which, if my conjeeture be right, must have touched the 
northern wall of the eloister sumewhere to the west of the 
chapel door. Iam, however, inclined to believe the chapel 
was a small edifice, having a central tower, probably of no 
great height, with a short north aisle, or rather transept, 
thus giving the rudimentary plan of a cruciform building, 
commonly to be traced in Early English churches in this 
part of England, which transept, being extended westward 
beyond the tower would have afforded space for the ante- 
chapel, as I suppose it to have existed.* Under the north 
end of the dormitory, which oceupied the whole length of 
the upper story of the eastern side of the quadrangle, is a 
small room with an arched ceiling, to which there was no 
access except from the chapel, the present entrance from 
the quadrangle being merely an aumbry, the wall under 
_ which has been broken through down to the ground, while 
the door into the chapel has been converted into a fire- 
place. This small room is surrounded by aumbries, and 
was no doubt the vestry; but, besides these aumbries, it 
contains a very curious and almost unaccountable feature. 
The window which looks to the east appears to have been 
originally a narrow Early Finglish window, with splay and 
rear arch similar to the others in this part of the building ; 
but some time after, probably early in the 14th century, 
* Since writing the above, I have found cause for doubting the correct- 
mess of my views on the structure of the church. It seems probable that 
it.was a cruciform building of considerable dimensions, the south transept 
of which was occupied by the tower; and that the piscma above mentioned 
was that attached to an altar situated at tlıe east end of the south transept ; 
that the high altar stood somewhere to the north-east of this, perhaps within 
the present rick-yard; and that the nave extended some distance to the 
west; of the entrance mentioned as having probably opened upon an ante- 
chapel, but which, it is more likely, entered into the nave itself. I have 
not, however, been able satisfactorily to ascertain the extent of the building 
towards the west. 
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