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perfected " the upper chamber " under which lies immediately our 

 refectory (or dining-room) in the said Palace of Sarum " after the 

 Restoration (Aug. 28th, 1662), and consecrated it to sacred uses, he 

 only revived a practice that had been in force for some time before 

 the Great Rebellion. Indeed it is quite possible that the lower part 

 of the screen may be of the reign of Charles I., and the upper part 

 Henchman's work or later. The ribs of the panelled roof are 

 probably of the same date as the walls. The panels are modern. 

 The chapel, which, with the ante-chapel, is about 40ft. long and 

 18ft. wide, is, as you will remember, in a block of building ap- 

 parently of the middle of the fifteenth century. The lower part is 

 the present main entrance hall, to which is attached an unsightly 

 porch, testifying by the arms above it to the " liberal but tasteless 

 innovations " of Bishop Barrington just about a century ago. This 

 block or wing is attached to the north-east corner of Bishop Poore's 

 Hall, and may have taken the place of a chapel of his time, or at 

 any rate of an early date, just as Bishop Burnell's existing chapel 

 at Wells took the place of that of Bishop Joceline. The fabric I 

 should venture to ascribe to Bishop Beauchamp (1450 — 81), who 

 built the great eastern hall, and I suppose the tower by which it 

 was entered — of which we shall speak presently —and who was a 

 great builder elsewhere. It is difficult to say exactly how much of 

 Beauchamp's work still remains. It is stated by the Rev. Peter 

 Hall, in his " Memorials of Salisbury " (note to pi. 16, A.D. 1834), 

 that not only the porch just mentioned, but the windows of this 

 wing, were inserted under Bishop Barrington " according to a 



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 et esse et in futuris perpetuis temporibus remanere debere palam et publico 

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 in ea parte usitatis et Capellis abantiquo fundatis rite competentibus Capellam 

 banc praedictam ad omnem juris effectum munitam et stabilitam esse volumus 

 et quantum Nobis est et de jure possumus sic munimus et staoilirnus In quorum 

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 apponi fecimus Lecta et Lata fuit haec sententia vicesimo octavo die Mensis 

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 Consecrationis Secundo." 



