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A few yards to the right or south of this well no douht was 

 the Gateway into the court of the castle. It was not at the well, 

 because a fragment of the wall that remains there shews no 

 signs of an arch springing from it. This it must have done if 

 the arch of the gateway had sprung from it ; and the gateway 

 probably stood about the middle of the court, on the site of the 

 house belonging to the coalyard, and opposite to the present 

 spring into the area of the Castle. 



The fragment of wall mentioned above, spans across the 

 arch of the well above the mouth, and forms more than half the 

 side of a small house, as the well goes directly under the house. 

 The eastern half of this wall has been thrown down, and then 

 repaired with its own materials. The top has been also repaired 

 in the same manner, and had a window inserted in it. But the 

 western end witnesses sufficiently its antiquity by its aspect. It 

 rises up like some of the walls within the Parsonage, contracting 

 in its breadth as it ascends, but it appears again in its founda- 

 tion at the bank before it, and about .... yards to the west of it. 

 This therefore is the only relique of that range of rooms which 

 formed the north side of the court, as about 10 or 11 feet north 

 of it is another wall, very entire, and the back wall of these 

 rooms. 



The small house which has the well under it is thrust in 

 between this wall and that, representing therefore the rooms that 

 were formerly enclosed between them, and shows them to have 

 been only 10 or 11 feet in width. The weU projecting with its 

 broad and arched back into the rooms, though it was probably 

 covered then, as it now is, with the raised level of floor, shows 

 us the designation of the rooms. 



The Kitchen of the castle occupied the western half of this 

 north side, with its scullery at the western end of it, and the 

 northerly or back wall now shows itself very tall, about . . feet in 

 height, very long about . . feet in extent, and very ragged as it 

 has been skinned of its facing stones for the construction of 

 houses in the village. It extends to the very limit of the castle 

 ground easterly, failing a little in its upper parts towards the 

 end, but still preserving its original length in its foundations. 



