By J. A. Reeve. 



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present walls are of about the original height, it will at once be seen 

 what an extremely fine apartment this great hall of Bishop Beau- 

 champ's palace must have been ; it was probably lighted by lofty 

 windows, similar in character to the existing windows in the tower, 

 but of much greater length and divided into two parts by a transome, 

 and it is not unreasonable to suppose that a projecting bay window 

 occurred at the western end of the north wall, beside the high table, 

 such as fifteenth century architects so frequently adopted in halls of 

 this description. 



The roof of the hall and the embattled parapets of the side walls 

 would no doubt have been carried up to the east wall of the area in 

 the centre of the palace in an unbroken line. 



It appears that the whole of this eastern wing of the palace was 

 completely ruined at the time of the Great Kebellion, portions o£ 

 the outer walls having alone escaped destruction, hence the difficulty 

 of deciding what were the exact limits of the great hall as originally 

 designed by Bishop Beauchamp ; and although we are indebted to 

 Bishop Seth Ward for having preserved some portion of the shell 

 of the building, still the great alterations which he introduced into 

 its form and probable extent have very materially increased the 

 difficulty of re-constructing it in imagination on its original lines ; 

 but a careful consideration of the existing remains has suggested the 

 foregoing explanation of the various features which exist, and to 

 some extent it seems to account in a reasonable manner for the pe- 

 culiarities which we find. 



Some remains of small door jambs in the east wall lead to the 

 supposition that an annexe formerly existed outside this wall ; per- 

 haps the sewery may have stood here, for the original sewery be- 

 longing to Bishop Poore's hall would have been too far off from the 

 new hall to have been convenient ; various other offices may also 

 have been located at this point, but presumably Bishop Poore's 

 kitchen remained in use down to the time of the Great Rebellion. 



What may be called the mediaeval history of the palace ends with 

 the work executed by Bishop Beauchamp ; after the partial des- 

 truction of the building at the time of the Great Rebellion a large 

 part of the central and eastern portions of the palace must have 



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