Recent Excavations at Holy Island Priory. 23*7 



these with their boat gear and other appliances, would require 

 considerable accommodation. 



As on tlie Plan accompanying this paper, the names of the 

 various rooms have not been inserted, they being, to a great 

 extent, matters of conjecture, it may be well to recapitulate 

 what has been assumed. 



Taking as a basis the last inventory of 1533, and interpolating 

 in their order such rooms as are contained in former inventories, 

 but omitted in the last, it is assumed that passing out of the door 

 of the church in the South Transept, the slype leading from the 

 cloister garth to the monks' cemetery is first passed, then come the 

 cloisters in which were the Vestry and Library, beyond these the 

 Parlour, used also as a chapel, from which a door in the eastern 

 wall opened into an open passage leading to Whitfield Tower, and 

 a door on the south wall into a room forming part of the Prior's 

 Chamber perhaps used as a Calefactory. Over these buildings 

 were the dormitories of the monks, prior, and probably rooms for 

 strangers. To the south of the Cloister Garth, the Refectory 

 separated by a screen from the passage leading from the gate- 

 way under the Yet Tower to the inner court. Off this passage 

 were the Domestic Offices, including Kitchen, Brewhouse, 

 Bakehouse, Buttery, Larder ; the other buildings west of the court 

 consisting of cellarage and workshops ; dormitories for lay de- 

 pendants and strangers above — the Quest or St. Cuthberfs Hall 

 being the long room behind the Bakehouse. 



In the outer court were the granaries, stables, fishhouse, mill, 

 limekiln, and other buildings connected with the outdoor require- 

 ments of the priory. 



No trace of a chapter house was found, nor is there any record 

 of such a building ; the community was too Small to require one. 



An Infirmary is mentioned in the accounts of expenditure for 

 1444 ; this probably may have been situated behind the Prior's 

 chamber, and entered from the passage from the Parlour to 

 Whitfield Tower, 



As was to be expected, considering the nature of the occupa- 

 tion of the Priory after its dissolution, no relics of any great 

 importance were found. From the bottom of the well in the 

 outer court, under the mass of stones and rubbish with which 

 it was filled, was taken out a full-sized leaden model of a herring 

 of perfect shape, evidently cast in a mould taken from a natural 

 fish. Through the tail of this, which was curved over, was a 



