240 OLD PORTLAND. 



The " chapel " as shown in Upham's picture (1802) has 

 now become the mere fragment of a ruin. It has under- 

 gone sad ill-usage ; it is said that large portions of it \\ere 

 carted away to help in various buildings, including the 

 Union Workhouse at Weymouth. All that remains of 

 this valuable relic of Old Portland is a part of the south wall, 

 24 feet long and 15 feet high, containing the lower portion 

 of a window of two lights (partly blocked up) and small 

 fragments of another to the east of it ; and a portion of the 

 adjoining south-west wall, 11 feet long and 15 feet high, 

 containing the lower portion of a small window, also roughly 

 blocked up. There is a buttress at the south-west angle of 

 these remaining portions of the two ancient walls, and a 

 few fragments of carved stone lying about on the ground 

 or built into the modern adjoining walls. 



A tithe-barn seems to have been built at a later date ad- 

 joining the "chapel," which was used in the year 1848 as 

 the Church Sunday School for girls and infants while the 

 boys Avent to the Jacobean School in Straits. 



\.-The Tudor Castle ("Portland Castle"). 



There is nothing fresh to write about " the bulwark at 

 Portland" built by Henry VIII., since the valuable article 

 on Portland Castle, by Mr. Henry Symonds, F.S.A., was 

 published in Vol. XXXV. of the Dorset Field Club's Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Dimly in the distance across the water can be seen the 

 old Ferry House, known as the Passage House, or more 

 colloquially "the old King Bill." There were bitter con- 

 troversies on the Island when the present Ferry Bridge 

 and Railway Bridge were built. 



VI. Stone-quarrying. 



The earliest quarrying on the Island on a large scale (in 

 the 17th century) was done under and along the East Cliff 



