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probably on the site of the old kitchen, parallel to the present chapel 

 wiDg, thus making with the hall three sides of a court or quadrangle, 

 a very common arrangement. We shall discuss the date of the 

 chapel presently. Access to the hall in our case must have been by 

 a staircase. I incline to imagine that there was both an outer stone 

 staircase from what is the court and a turret staircase at the head or 

 southern end of the hall, where our old plan shows a projecting 

 circular building of the right size, but only on the ground-floor, or 

 perhaps in the corner where the solar is attached to it. The plan of 

 Bishop Poore's house would thus have been very much the same as 

 that of Bishop Joceline's at Wells, which was building about the 

 same time (1205 — 44). In both the hall is raised on a vaulted 

 undercroft, and in both the chamber is at right angles to one end 

 of the hall, forming the same gamma-like figure with it. Thus 

 they both differ from the plan of Lincoln Old Palace, which had a 

 hall upon the ground-floor divided into a nave and aisles (like the 

 present chapel, once the hall, of Auckland Castle, and the King's 

 Hall at Winchester.) At Lincoln, too, the solar was added across 

 the end of the hall, as seems to have been the ordinary arrangement 

 in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, not at right angles to it, 

 as here and at Wells (cp. Parker, " Domestic Architecture, Fourteenth 

 Century/'' p. 87, Oxford, 1852). The kitchen and offices at Wells 

 seem also to have been in the same position as ours, with the chapel 

 parallel to them, and having a court between as with us, though 

 the proportions are all larger. There is thus, as we should expect, 

 a certain provincial similarity between the palaces of these two 

 neighbouring cities, Wells and New Sarum. But while Bishop 

 Poore's work is very fine, Bishop Joceline's at Wells is magnificent 

 and princely. Where the substructure of our house is three bays 

 long his is seven, and three bays wide instead of our two ; so as to 

 leave room for a long side passage or gallery, both on the ground- 

 floor and above, under a separate line of roof. This passage, of 

 course, may have existed here, but there is no evidence at all of it. 

 I have spoken of Bishop Joceline's hall as if it was one splendid 

 room, but though this is possible I should say that Mr. J. H. 

 Parker considers it more probable that it was divided into three 



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