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but has been much mutilated. Immediately to the north of this, 

 but in the next bay, is a tall and narrow opening in the wall 4 feet 

 above the floor-level. It has a segmental head and apparently 

 formed the entrance to a vice, or staircase. Immediately beneath, 

 in the 15th century, a small square fireplace with curbed hearthstone 

 was inserted and the flue carried up the opening. Occupying the 

 centre of this bay is a square-headed two-light window with a 

 segmental rere-arch, inserted in the 15th century. This superseded 

 a shouldered doorway opening from the apartment, of which the 

 north jamb and one shoulder still remain close against the north 

 wall. 



The north wall is blank, but had some fittings fixed against its 

 eastern bay. The western bay retains its original plastering, on 

 which are two sketches of different dates. The earlier, which 

 cannot be much later than the 13th century, is in red lines and 

 represents a half-length figure of St. Christopher carrying the 

 Infant Saviour in his arms. The other is later and not so well 

 executed, is in blue lines, and represents St. Andrew with his arms 

 extended in the form of the cross that bears his name. 



The east wall is blank, except for a pointed-headed doorway 

 opposite the south walk of the cloister and inserted when the two 

 western bays of it were built in the 14th century. 



The south wall has in each bay a window, the western one is the 

 original lancet with segmental rere-arch, the other was enlarged at 

 an uncertain date into a plain two-light square-headed window, 

 but the rere-arch and one inside jamb of the original work were 

 retained. 



The chamber was divided by wooden partitions into separate 

 rooms, the two western severies were apparently living rooms with 

 a fireplace in each, and the two eastern severies would form a 

 passage thereto from the door to the cloister, with probably a store 

 place at the north end. The use of these chambers is uncertain, 

 but they were probably occupied by the chaplains, of whom there 

 were three and a father confessor. 1 There were other buildings to 

 the west, now destroyed, which contained two chambers, that were 



Valor Ecclesiasticus, ii., 115 — 118. 



