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<>uce must have formed a part of the interior. It is 

 probable the monastery* was on the west of the 

 church, and united with it ; as there are irregular- 

 ities in a field not far from the present building, and 

 an ancient road winding up to them ; and it appears 

 that the hospital, or some other building, has stood 

 on the north side of a wall on the N. w. of the church, 

 where there is a depression in the earth, as if dug 

 out for a foundation. 



An altar piece was lately proposed to be presen- 

 ted to this church, by Mr. John Jackson, of London ; 

 but some difficulties having arisen on account of the 

 position of the windows, the design has not yet 

 been carried into effect. If the windows of the 

 chancel were closed within, and the light admitted 

 from the roof, it would not only illuminate the pain- 

 ting in a proper manner, but would dispel much of 

 that gloom which now pervades the whole building; 

 and without any great expense the chancel might 

 be converted into a kind of Sanctum Sanctorum ; 

 and rendered indescribably beautiful. 



His Grace the Archbishop of York and the Rev. 

 Francis Wrangham, Archdeacon of Cleveland, have 

 been consulted respecting it ; who are willing and 



* About fifty years since, the foundations of the mon- 

 astery were razed by the sacrilegious hand of an inhabi- 

 tant ; and the catacombs, containing the dust of many 

 a celebrated member of the fraternity, torn up to furnish 

 materials for fences ; leaving us to guess at the situation 

 they had occupied. The Rev. W. Ellis, then vicar, 

 whose indignation at the circumstance was unbounded, 

 wrote some Latin verses on the subject, expressive of his 

 sentiments : but they have been borne away by the stream 

 of oblivion ; and like the ashes of the hand that wrote 

 them they cannot be fouud. 



