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visible to the public. The party noticed with interest the ancient oak wains- 

 coting. Especially interesting is the bedroom with its open-timbered roof 

 supported by a massive principal and a corresponding kingpost. The eaves 

 are adorned with beautifully-carved paterae in the device of the Tudor rose, 

 and the spandrels also tastefully worked. 



THE " HALLE OF JOHN HALLE " (now a china shop) a 

 beautiful 15th Century house ; the CROSS KEYS INN, with a 

 picturesque wooden staircase, were depicted on the way to 



ST. EDMUND'S CHURCH. 



It was indeed hard to believe, as Mr. Doran Webb assured 

 the party, when they had sat down in the present nave of 

 five bays, that it was really not a nave at all, but the original 

 chancel of the 15th Century church, the nave and transepts of 

 which were demolished, after being damaged by the fall of 

 the western tower of 1653. 



The whole church originally measured from east to west from 200 to 300 

 feet, and was the longest and largest church in Salisbury, with the exception 

 of the Cathedral. In or about 1539 the good people of Salisbury received so 

 heavy a bill from their plumber for re-leading the lead-covered wooden spire 

 that, to prevent the recurrence of a similar item of expense, they forthwith 

 pulled it down. The new chancel was built by Sir Gilbert Scott. 



TRINITY HOSPITAL an ancient place of shelter, sustenance, 

 and repose for twelve old men was next visited. 



The almshouse, said Mr. Doran Webb, was founded by Mr. William 

 Chandler, who died in 1411. It consisted originally of chapel and hall, 

 dormitory, kitchen, buttery, store-house, and solar. Rebuilt in 1704, it is 

 now an excellent specimen of the much maligned " Queen Anne " period. 

 The chapel preserves some of the old glass. Mr. Geo. Fulford, chairman of 

 the trustees, courteously attended, with Mr. W. H. Baker, a local antiquary, 

 and tome fellow trustees, and by their kind leave, Mr. Hamilton Fulton, 

 their clerk, j reduced for inspection the ancient communion plate, and the 

 cherished papal bull. It was stated that the Elizabethan chalice bearing the 

 date 1598 was given in exchange for the pre-Reformation chalice, and there is 

 a paten of 1704, and a pewter flagon with the date 1707. The precious parch- 

 ment, a bull of Pope Boniface, is a fine specimen of mediaeval penmanship, of 

 the date 1379, and promising a fortnight's indulgence for obedience to its 

 behests. 



