94 EXCAVATIONS ON THE SITE OF LAITNOESTON PRIORY. 



for securing stonework, and a few scraps of opaque glass, were 

 turned out from day to day. 



It was found impossible to save the ruins, but permission to 

 remove the relics found was obtained. So the old walls speedily 

 vanished under the pickaxe, and the stones which composed them 

 were used to build a wall around the gasholder which now stands 

 on the site of the Chancel of Launceston Priory. 



Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, granted an indulgence in favour of 

 the Chapel of St. Catherine, which was affiliated to the Priory, 

 and had probably suffered during the then late riots. Where 

 this Chapel stood is a disputed question, some assuming that it 

 was built on the site of what we now know as the Alexandra, or 

 Tresmarrow Slate Quarry, and others that it stood near the 

 western entrance to St. Thomas Churchyard. A lane known as 

 St. Catherine's lane ascends directly from the Priory to the 

 former site, and the quarry itself has, for centuries, been known 

 as "Catherine" or "'Kattern Walls." Sculptured stones have 

 been found there, and the shrubs and plants, still growing on 

 the spot, indicate its former use. The latter site was occupied by 

 the ruins of a building in the form of a Chapel until a few 

 years ago, when the old walls were pulled down, the stones from 

 them being used in building the adjoining bone mill. Leland 

 points to the locality of this Chapel as being "by the west north- 

 west, a little without Launstowne," and he adds "It is now 

 prophanid." 



During the priorate of Robert Waryn, viz. in 1478, a pay- 

 ment was made, to the receiver of the son of the reigning King, 

 at the Chapel of St. Gabriel, in the Priory. I think this Chapel 

 was that on the north of the Chancel. [See Plan.] 



A Chapel of St. James is mentioned in the Charter of 

 Philip and Mary to Dunheved, as occuping a site near the 

 present St. Thomas Bridge, on the left hand as we descend from 

 the Town. 



I will here say a few words on the human remains recently 

 exhumed inside and outside the walls of the Priory Chancel. 

 The graves were formed as follows. Within vertical slabs of 

 roughly trimmed stone, the bodies were laid horizontally with 



