A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Room with four-centred heads and shallow 

 cavetto moulded and chamfered jambs. 



Bishop Butler died in 1752 and Bishop Trevor, 

 it would appear, carried on the work with some 

 slight alteration, judging from the stonework, 

 which is somewhat diilerent from the general 

 refacing, the bed joints not coinciding. Bishop 

 Trevor appears to have built the chimney 

 breast, upon which he inserted a large shield of 

 the arms of Bishop Butler. He also built the 

 projecting portion towards the west end, a 

 feature of which is the door with the window 

 over, between which he placed his coat of arms, 

 the whole being contained in a shallow recess 



upper floor with a flag-stone much worn ; this 

 shaft is cut away by the insertion of one of the 

 later windows below, and all further trace is 

 lost, but it has apparently been a well shaft 

 used later for other purposes. At the back of 

 the chimney breast of Room No. 18 there 

 exists a doorway, opening out into a garderobe 

 partially formed in the thickness of the wall 

 and the shallow buttress at the back; the jambs 

 are corbelled with an almost semicircular curve 

 at the top, and the head has a shallow arch in 

 one stone, a splay running uninterruptedly 

 round all. The window recess of the bedroom 

 adjoining originally had another similar doorway; 



Durham Castle : The Courtyard looking North 



with ogee cusped head, having a hood mould 

 surmounted by a rude fleur-de-lis. He also 

 stuccoed the Bishop's or Senior Judge's Room 

 and inserted the carved mantelpiece upon which 

 his arms again appear. Two copies of Norman 

 windows on the upper floor are insertions, 

 probably the work of Mr. Salvin, the architect, 

 who did considerable work at the castle in the 

 early days of the University. 



The two flat arched stone heads with key- 

 stones to windows of the Octagonal Room and 

 the Senate Room Lobby probably date from 

 the time of Bishop Neile (1617-28), but the 

 formation of the Octagonal Room and the 

 decoration do not appear to have been executed 

 until the time of Bishop Egerton (1771-87). 



In the thickness of the wall of Room No. 17 

 are the remains of a circular ashlar shaft about 

 2 ft. in diameter, half covered at the level of the 



a portion of the jambs, now cut away, remains 

 below the floor level. 



What little is left of Pudsey's exterior walling 

 has a character of its own, the best part being 

 on the west face, where many of the stones are 

 as sound as the day they were worked. The 

 courses vary slightly in depth, and are formed 

 with square stones finely dressed with wide 

 joints, the effect of which is good. His stone 

 was obtained from the river bank. 



On the south wall are two lead rain-water 

 heads worthy of notice. The one in the west 

 angle near the Great Stairs is rectangular, with 

 an oval-shaped outlet under ; the top is decorated 

 with an embattled and cusped cornice, the 

 angles have round looped columns, with ball 

 pendants; in the centre is the shield bearing a 

 lion rampant and on either side the initials 

 N.D. (Bishop Nathaniel Crewe). Under are 



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