By Harold Brakspear, A.B.I.B.A. 



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ormed of three canopied niches. The centre one has a curions 

 .rojecting semi- circular back, behind which and within the buttress 

 hat runs up the centre of the gable outside is a large circular 

 lue, up which a lantern was hoisted on dark nights to guide 

 wayfarers, which must have been visible at a great distance. In 

 dther side wall is a small two-light window with ogee-head, of the 

 >riginal work. Two stone arches springing from semi-octagonal 

 iorbels in the side walls originally carried a stone slab roof, which 

 vas removed, as well as the upper part of the arches, when the 

 milding was raised ; but the lowest and projecting course of slabs 

 itill shows on the outside of the chapel and priest's chamber as well, 

 ;o that probably the whole of the original roofs were constructed in 

 ids way. Two narrow two-light windows were inserted on either 

 dde just against the east end during the later fifteenth century 

 alterations ; that to the south is blocked up, and the head with a 

 Hat moulding cut on is all that is visible. 



The hospice portion, except the west wall, contains nothing of 

 the original work, as both side walls were re-built to widen this part 

 ^-as is evident at the north-west corner, where the original plinth 

 stops and returns into the wall at about 2ft. from the present angle. 

 The west doorway is four-centred within a square head, between 

 which are well-carved spandrils with a shield in each. Above the 

 door, but much out of centre, is a boldly-projecting niche with 

 canopied head and the sides pierced with cusj)ed headed openings. 

 It is supposed to have been intended to hold a lamp ; if so it is a 

 curious and early example of the familiar light over the door of a 

 modern hotel. The gable above is finished by a simple stone bell- 

 cot of the later fifteenth century work. In the south wall, on the 

 inside, are two arches, the western one was the entrance to the 

 staircase turret — now destroyed — which gave access to the upper 

 floor through the now blocked-up ogee-headed doorway above. 

 The eastern arch seems to have been merely a recessed seat. In 

 the same wall further east is another doorway, on the west side of 

 which is a two-light window with four-centred archod heads with 

 no cusps to the lights. 



During the late conversion of the hospital into a serviceable 



