By the Rev, Canon Moberly. 



159 



APPENDIX C. 



Extract from a MS. by Mr. Hickman, chaplain of St. Nicholas' 

 Hospital, dated 1713. 



" I find that the body of the church (or cloister) was founded upon twelve 

 pillars with large and beautiful arches turned on them, six of each side, in distance 

 from each other about 14 foot, which said range of pillars and arches ran up also 

 on the north and south sides to the very east end of the chancel, in which were 

 eight or ten pillars more ; and [the] body of the church (or cloister) was in 

 breadth in the inside from pillar to pillar about 25 foot, as was also the chancel 

 built on a continuation of the same range of pillars : the pillars was near 3 foot 

 square, and in height from the floor to the upper part of the cornice on which the 

 foot o£ the arches stood about 5 foot and a half in height. The body of the 

 church (or cloister) was in length about 76 foot, between which and the chancel 

 was a cross aisle ranging north and south ; in length from the body of the church 

 each way were 40 foot, and in breadth about 13 ; but a wall went cross them and 

 a door in each at the end of about 20 foot exactly alike on both sides. From 

 the east end of the body of the church (or cloister) to the east end of the chancel 

 was about 46 foot in length, and at the east end of the chancel was also a sanctum 

 sanctorum, or low chapel of about 28 foot in length : so that from the west porch 

 of the church (or cloister) to the east end of the sanctum was about an 150 foot, 

 and the length of the cross aisles from north to south about 110 foot. At the 

 south end of the cross aisle was also a further building of necessary houses over 

 the water, and there was also additional buildings at the end of the north cross 

 aisle that answered to those on the south, and led to the door of entrance into 

 the churchyard, and these additional buildings had chambers over them. There 

 was there also chapels, one on the north side of the chancel dedicated to the 

 Blessed Virgin Maria, and another on the south side thereof, dedicated to St. 

 Nicholas, both of an equal length and breadth (viz.) in length 36 foot and in 

 breadth 20, which answered exactly to the length of the inner part of the cross 

 aisles before you came to the wall and door that enters into [the] outer part of 

 the cross aisle, both sides being of an exact proportion, according as it is here 

 represented in the first platform or figure. The poor people's rooms being twelve 

 in number were six on the north side of the body of the church (or cloister) and 

 six on the south, which six on the south continues much as they did from the 

 first, only as at first they came out of their doors into a passage of about 8 foot 

 wide between their said doors and the pillars of the cloister, between which 

 pillars it was all open, so that to go from the rooms on the north side of the 

 church (or cloister) to those on the south (or from the south to the north) they 

 went between the said pillars, and so cross the church (or cloister) : but since the 

 said church is gone there is now a strong brick wall made between the pillars on 

 the south side from west to east to keep the rooms warm, but both pillars and 

 poor's chambers are all gone from the north side thereof, and shops for weaving 

 erected in the place of the poor people's lodging rooms. There is no mention in 

 the ordination of any set number of poor people, but I am apt to believe it was 

 designed for twelve from the foundation. There was two porches for entrance, 

 one on the north, the other on the south side of the body of the church (or cloister) 



