10 ELEVENTII ANNUAL MEETING. 



Joseph's Chapel ; B, the additional building of Henry de 

 Blois ; C, the nave of the great church ; D, the central 

 point under the tower ; E, the choir ; F, the slte of the 

 retro, or lady's chapel ; second F, the same according to 

 its original proportions ; G, the north transept ; H, the 

 south ditto ; I, K, L, M, chapels in the two transepts, their 

 names too uncertain to be correctly given ; N, a cloister ; 

 O, the chapter-house ; P, the area, vvith cloisters round it ; 

 Q, the refectory ; R, the guest-hall ; S, part of the lord 

 abbot's dwelling ; T, the abbot's kitchen ; V, part of the 

 almonry ; W, a covered passage into the crypt ; X, St. 

 Joseph's Well. 



Mr. Parker observed that it is very singular that no 

 traces or fragments of the early Norman church can be 

 found, nor is there any record of any such having been 

 found. The earliest parts of the buildings that we have 

 reinaining are of the very latest Norman and transitional 

 character, such as we might expect to have been built after 

 the great firc, or between 1185 and 1193. He remarked 

 that there is no mention of a church having been built by 

 Henry de Blois, while nearly all the other buildings of the 

 Abbey are enumerated, and the gatehouse is particularly 

 specified to have been of hewn stone, which seeras to imply 

 that the other buildings were not. He was inclined to 

 think that all these other buildings, therefore, were of 

 w^ood, and that the church of Herlewin was of the same 

 material. This would account for the entire destruction of 

 the whole by the great fire. The chapel now called St. 

 Joseph's Chapel, he was inclined to identify with the 

 church of St. Älary, dedicated in 1186. There is no trace 

 of any other lady-chapel, and the lady-chapel of the early 

 church at Canterbury was at the west end. It is possible 

 to suppose that by great exertions, under the royal autho- 



