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apart as a residence for the chantry priests. The name of the place at 

 the same time underwent a change, and it was thenceforward known 

 as " S. Audoen's college." The apartments may not all have been 

 ready for occupation for a time, as in 1538 a proviso was endorsed on 

 one of the deeds, that " if the priests of S. Audoen's keep residence," 

 they are to have a small cellar under the little buttery. Under the 

 Inns certain cellars, forming portion of the premises, had been leased 

 to various citizens, and were in use by them. 



The College. 



A great door in the eastern side of S. Audoen's-lane^ led into a 

 large close, bounded on the north by the city wall, and on the east by 

 Kam-lane, while at its south-western end lay a small garden between 

 it and the north wall of the church. East of this garden lay another 

 larger one, in which stood the pile of buildings formerly known as 

 Elakeney's Inns. Each garden had a door communicating with the 

 great close or court. 



The main building, which boasted a tower, contained a great hall 

 and a kitchen (also called the little cellar), at its east end, under what 

 was long known as sir George Browne's chamber; also a buttery 

 adjoining the hall. The chambers specially mentioned in the deeds 

 are — the second chamber of the tower, next the vault, and the upper- 

 most chamber of the tower ; the fourth chamber, the east chamber 

 next the garden (which had "rooms and places"), and the third 

 chamber of the gallery next from the church. 



A new gallery, which " joined the church door," was erected, and 

 it probably led, for the convenience of the priests serving in the 

 church, from the great hall or certain of the chambers, to the north 

 door in the chancel w all. While the Blakeney family held the premises 

 this was unnecessary ; but once the chantry priests went to reside in 

 the Inns, a direct mode of communication had to be devised, and this was 

 achieved by means of a gallery, which gave them an approach from 

 their apartments through the garden to the nearest door of the sacred 

 edifice,. Some portion of this ancient doorway, which had moulded 



1 In ancient times there were houses on both sides of S. Audoen's-lane ; on the 

 east side they extended from the north M-all of the church to S. Audoen's gate ; on 

 the west from the corner of Keyzar's-lane to the tower over the gate (the ground 

 being at a higher level). The backs of these last opened into the cemetery, the 

 northern side of which Avas bounded by the old city wall. 



