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east gable have been rebuilt. On the north side of the chapel is 

 a door, which is pointed and decorated ; on the west side of it is 

 a large projecting chimney [perhaps] added since the chapel was 

 built. The interior of this building is now a long stable ; behind the 

 manger, at the east end, is the upper part of the piscina, with an 

 ogee arch, the lower part has been removed. The aumbry is in the 

 east wall. The upper part of this building, which in later times has 

 been used as a dwelling house, has been entered by a flight of stairs 

 at the N.W". corner of the courtyard. The thatch at the east end 

 has fallen in. On entering the room up the stairs is a doorway 

 opposite, leading to a small recess about 6 feet long by 4 broad, 

 which has been used as a numero cent in former times ; the entrance 

 of the stone pipe from it is visible on the outside, close to the 

 ground. The drain forms a sort of buttress on the north wall ; inside 

 is a large fireplace ; about half way along and nearer the east end 

 is a window built up. The tie beams are of massive oak, and 

 correspond in form with the tie beams in the dwelling house 

 adjoining. The chapel has been 49 feet 3 inches long by 18 feet 

 9 inches broad. It is the opinion of Mr Rose, who visited this place 

 with me, that the east end alone of this chapel had been open to 

 the roof, and that the western part had been ceiled as in the chapel 

 in Warkworth Castle ; the upper room being used by the inmates of 

 the house — the room being open at the east — the worshippers could 

 look into the sacrarium from above, and see and hear what went on 

 below. On the north side of the chapel has been a long narrow 

 room, the walls remain on the north and west, and the foundations 

 of the east wall are visible ; the entrance into the room was from 

 the quadrangle in the centre ; this room was 30 feet long by 15 

 feet broad, the walls are 2 feet 6 inches thick. On the north side 

 of the quadrangle was a room running east and west, 25 feet by 16 

 feet 10 inches, the entrance was in the courtyard ; the west wall 

 formed the east side of the entrance into the quadrangle through the 

 great gates. One window only remains, a long narrow loop looking 

 north. On the west side of the entrance was a similar room, 

 only smaller, viz. 20 feet by 16 feet 10 inches, with an entrance in 

 the centre from the quadrangle. Between this door and the entrance 

 is a small window, and in the north side another very small window. 

 The north east angle of the long range of dwelling house, running 

 north and south, extends a considerable distance into the angle of 

 this room. This long building is used as a dwelling house, and is 

 two stories high ; the front is 72 feet 9 inches. There is a door 

 into it from the quadrangle, and a passage which goes through the 

 house to the west side, where is another door. Below the window 

 sill of every window up stairs are three plain brackets ; these 

 windows have projected from the wall, and may have been useful 

 to the inhabitants for shooting at ' friends from across the border.' 

 In the two rooms at the north and south of this are very large 



