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rity, tliis chapel may have been built in a year ; it is im- 

 possible to suppose tliat the larger church could have been. 

 St. Joseph's Chapel is remarkably complete in itself, all of 

 a piece, built at one time, and a little earlier than the large 

 church, though not much. The crypt is naturally the 

 most ancient part, but it diiFers from the superstructure 

 only so much as the subterranean part of a building 

 usually does from the upper part, and it has no appearance 

 of having belonged to an earlier building which had been 

 destroyed by fire. Such a destruction usually does leave 

 considerable traces, as at Canterbury. It is just such a 

 church or chapel as would be necessary for carrying ou 

 divine Service, and would allow time for going on with the 

 large church. The latest portion of the building is the 

 sort of porch which connects. the west end of the large 

 church with the east end of St. Joseph's Chapel. This 

 portion is decldedly of Early English character, and ac- 

 cordlng to ^Ir. Parker's hypothesis, this Is just the portion 

 which would naturally be bullt last. After the chapel had 

 answered its separate purpose, and the whole work had 

 been completed, the east wall of the chapel may have been 

 removed and the whole throAvn into one. The accom- 

 panying woodcuts illustrate the characteristlc features of 

 the architecture of St. Joseph's Chapel. 



The chancel-arch of the great church which remains is 

 just sufficient to show what the original design has been, 

 and a beautiful drawing of It, made out from the remains 

 by Mr. Scott, was afterwards exhibited to the meeting. 

 The two eastern bays of the choir are of later character 

 than the rest ; the shafts and mouldings of the interlor of 

 this part belong to the fourteenth Century. A discusslon 

 ensued between Mr. Parker, Mr. Freeman, and others, as 

 to whether these two bays had been added, or only altered 



